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.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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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.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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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.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm honestly all over the board. I think if I had to pick one, I'd probably say it's country first, but I listen to literally everything: country, pop, rock, rap.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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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.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people.
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People think it's very strange because I love whale watching - you don't see whales a lot where I'm from.
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People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.
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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.
