Lesley Nicol Quotes
When I heard I had gotten 'Downton Abbey,' I remember I was standing on a freezing cold street in Manchester where we were shooting the Manchester part of 'West is West.'
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.
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I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn't know if she was still popular there. I hope people understand we aren't making fun of Kylie.
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Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
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Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
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When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.
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Little boys have amazing minds.
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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
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Foreign universities have two aspects - content and brand. If we focus on the brand, we could lose out on the content. The idea is to focus on the content.
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We never had a huge squad and we never had a great deal of choice. But in many ways that helps because you've got to make do with what you've got. You don't have too many problems about picking the team you just hope that everyone turns up on the day.
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We have a large public that is very ignorant about world affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans.
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Only a dad with a tired face,Coming home from the daily race,Bringing little of gold or fameTo show how well he has played the game;But glad in his heart that his own rejoiceTo see him come and to hear his voice.
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I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.
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Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a pure and lasting fame and the blessings of posterity.
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I'm not a big fan of young people.
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When I heard I had gotten 'Downton Abbey,' I remember I was standing on a freezing cold street in Manchester where we were shooting the Manchester part of 'West is West.'
