Amanda Abbington Quotes
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I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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Coming up with novel ideas and converting them into real products has always been as natural as breathing for me.
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You just have to go to bat and take a swing. And if you're not right for a part, or it goes to a British man, they may remember that you showed up, knew your lines and were good. And maybe they'll call you in for something else.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
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It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.
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Governments must ensure that the power of blogs is cultivated and implemented in collaborative ways, with a view to preserve peace and human dignity.
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I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.
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When you watch a film, a huge part of it is the music and the coloring and everything that comes together to create such a unique film. So, reading the script, I had no idea what it was gonna be.
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I'm doing what I want to do.
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The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.
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I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.
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I had been writing professionally since 1988.
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We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.
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The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.
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For a really long time, I thought being different was a negative thing. But as I grew older, I started to realize we were all born to stand out; nobody is born to blend in.
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War is never anything less than accelerated technological change. (p. 102)
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I think when we start to understand what masculinity and femininity is, then men won't fear so much the feminine side coming out. And the masculine side for women coming out won't be such a burden, in a way. Just be ourselves.
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As quoted in 'Ann Slanders' by Steve Rendall in Extra! (November/December 2002).
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Our Keystone legislation received strong bipartisan support in the Senate. Although it didn't receive the 60 votes necessary for passage, 56 senators - a majority - voted in favor of the bill. Despite President Obama's actively lobbying against the bill, we still won the support of 11 Democrats.
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I think it's a lot easier to put together a reality show than to actually create a scripted show.
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If you get a script and it's really well written, that's always exciting.
