Ann Dowd Quotes
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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
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When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.
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If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.
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Mark Twain cannot be defined.
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So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.
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We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
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I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being.
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On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.
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My intention of making acting a career was about being onstage.
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We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
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I really wanted 'NH10' to be made, and being associated with it eased the entire process.
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I don't really remember much about Kosovo. I only remember growing up in London, where my parents had to basically start from scratch.
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I think the theater is where you stand up, and you say, 'Here is what I have to offer.'
