Ann Cleeves Quotes
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.
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It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
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I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.
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I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers.
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I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.
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Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, who suffered death because she chose to turn.
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I'm tall with broad shoulders. And my waist is small. I'm into fashion, so I like the way clothes lay on me. I'm pretty much a normal person's size, just stretched out.
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I think that when you get right down to it, people do evolve on different issues. And, you know, I'm pro-life. And I was begrudgingly the other way.
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Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum.
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Most of my friends are plumbers.
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I'm one of those people who think I can learn something from everybody.
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I don't really like vegetables. But I'll eat them.
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Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that.
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So that they can actually make it known to the American people before they vote what they're voting for.
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I have to humble myself.
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At the beginning, my ambition was never to break down doors. It was just to earn tuition for myself and work in an industry where women hadn't been allowed or invited. That's all I wanted to do, not thinking that I would make waves, change minds, excite people, incite people, turn on people, repulse people.
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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
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No matter the risks we take, we always consider the end to be too soon, even though in life, more than anything else, quality should be more important than quantity.
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I lived in Shetland for a short while in the seventies and have been visiting ever since, so I have lots of useful contacts!
