Lindsay Duncan Quotes
My background is really being a writer's actor - that seems to be the way I work best, bringing out the best of writing. There's a whole range of acting skills, and some people can be astonishing with very poor material. That's not me; my skill is essentially unlocking the writing.Lindsay Duncan
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
T. E. Lawrence -
I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
Gabrielle Anwar -
I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
Kate Middleton -
An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
Federica Mogherini -
There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
Ira Sachs -
My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
Zadie Smith
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
Ted Shackelford -
I'm here today because I hated everything else.
Wanda Sykes -
It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
Jack Black -
My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
Val Kilmer -
To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
Vanilla Ice -
I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
Gautam Gambhir -
I don't look at myself as suffering.
A. J. Langer -
What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
Nathan Lane -
The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
Kabir Bedi -
In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
Gary Weiss
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For years I've been hearing 20-somethings say they don't expect Social Security to be around when they hit 65. Eventually, I came to realize that they really mean that they just don't expect to be 65. Or 40. Neither did I, when I was 22.
Gail Collins -
I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.
Zac Efron -
I love doing kids' shows, and I love working with kids. I've done a lot of it. A lot of people don't like working with children, but I love it.
Alan Arkin -
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
Jane Rule -
To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.
Confucius -
My background is really being a writer's actor - that seems to be the way I work best, bringing out the best of writing. There's a whole range of acting skills, and some people can be astonishing with very poor material. That's not me; my skill is essentially unlocking the writing.
Lindsay Duncan