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 the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
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There is always more information than attention.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us to live,as nothing else can: no didactic Scripture, anyhow. If the novelist keeps his thumb out of the pan.
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I shall be as brave as a my Toad, he thought, for my Toad never hides under the bed when she is afraid of lightning or bats. She sticks out her tongue and eats them.
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If you get a script and it's really well written, that's always exciting.
