Lindsay Duncan Quotes
Recently I made the mistake of opening a bundle of reviews that someone had sent me of a production from years and years ago, and someone had written a really lovely review except that it made a remark about the way I spoke: 'A lot of people find her voice terribly irritating.' Do they? I had no idea.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I have a great office.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.
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I wanted just a song to sing, and there came a certain point where I couldn't sing anything. So I had to write what I wanted to sing 'cos nobody else was writing what I wanted to sing.
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Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.
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People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say thats completely opposite of the truth.
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A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.
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Recently I made the mistake of opening a bundle of reviews that someone had sent me of a production from years and years ago, and someone had written a really lovely review except that it made a remark about the way I spoke: 'A lot of people find her voice terribly irritating.' Do they? I had no idea.
