Lindsay Duncan Quotes
You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.
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I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.
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I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
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Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened considerably when people discovered that the number of permanent jobs for locals, in the end, would amount to some dock workers.
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I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.
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I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
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People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
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I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
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Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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Friendship is the start for what you call love.
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Tennis is more commercial these days.
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I sort of like writing about weird characters, I guess.
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Conservatives are the heirs to the Founders' vision. But we have to act like it.
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You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.
