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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He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.
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I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
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Being on 'Glee' was amazing. I remember my first day on set, my first day I arrived to the set I was in my trailer and all of the actors came and banged on my door - Lea Michele, Chris Colfer, Amber Riley, Naya Rivera. They all welcomed me with open arms, so it was a great experience. It felt like family, and I miss them a lot over there.
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Comic books and radio were my escape. I even remember 3-D comic books where you put on the red-and-green glasses and Mighty Mouse would punch you in the face. It was the literature of the day for kids my age who were too bored with listening to 'Peter and the Wolf' on the record player.
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A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.
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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.'
