Lindsay Duncan Quotes
I've always been a material-based actor. That's what I've done, the choices I've made - like a heat-seeking missile.
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Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting.
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I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
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David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.
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When romance is done well in a movie, it's awesome.
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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
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Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself.
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I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal.
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100% of Net-a-porter customers have a man in their lives in some capacity, and 59% are married or living with a partner.
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To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
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I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.
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We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.
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I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I've done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that's just responsible.
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I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.
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Everybody either hates or loves John Cena; there's no medium. I feel like that I've accomplished something when I get people to cheer for John Cena. I feel like I've done something.
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Whether you hear me come out with another album or whether you hear any one of the Clan members, we're always going to involve everybody. When I look at 'Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Part II,' I look at that as a Wu album. You feel me? Even though it was my brand and my thing that I done, I had my dudes on it.
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When we begin to glimpse the reality of God, the natural reaction is to worship him. Not to have that reaction is a fairly sure sign that we haven't yet really understood who he is or what he's done.
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To-day, the road all runners come,Shoulder-high, we bring you home,And set you at your threshold down,Townsman of a stiller town.
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Not to sound too Dr. Phil all of a sudden, but I think the key to survival is to embrace one's past and to not run away from it. And to come to some sort of relationship with it or understanding of it.
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I was doing a college show for the first time, and there was this 20-year-old gay male who's been diabetic his entire life. He said, 'I really wanna get into stand-up.' I was like, 'Oh, my God, do you realize how interesting and inherently funny you are? Go do all the comedy that you wanna do.' I care about that.
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Black history is part of American history, and it should be treated as such.
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I've always been a material-based actor. That's what I've done, the choices I've made - like a heat-seeking missile.
