Anna Chancellor Quotes

There's a certain amount of self-aggrandising with actors, and I'm terribly shy of that.

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• The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • School
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  • Retirement

• I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • People
  • Long
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• I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening... A reporter who doesn't quickly tell readers what they most want to know - the score - won't last long. Better he should teach political science.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Long
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• I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Outside

• I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Poor
  • Concerned
  • Oppression

• We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • May
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• A lot of Montanans are teed off that local finds usually end up in New York.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Up
  • End
  • New

• I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Age
  • Artist
  • Young

• 'Winner' is a commercial family entertainer with a strong emotional core. Teju couldn't hold back his tears after watching the movie. The horse race portions were mostly shot in Turkey.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Family
  • Movie
  • Strong

• People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Me
  • Woman

• Once a year I will clean my room, just because I feel I should.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Feel
  • Year
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• My guilty pleasure is Flamin' Hot Cheetos.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Pleasure
  • Guilty
  • Hot

• Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Strong

• I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Comedy

• Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Religion
  • Atheism
  • Complete

• I know it's not the most important thing for me to win the most Grand Slams and be remembered in this world. I certainly don't have to win little tournaments here, there and everywhere, I don't have to win at all. Although I do want to.

  

  Venus Williams
  • World
  • Important
  • Win

• The question tonight, as I understand it, is 'The Negro Revolt, and Where Do We Go From Here?' or What Next?' In my little humble way of understanding it, it points toward either the ballot or the bullet.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Question
  • Understanding
  • Humble

• When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • True
  • Knowledge
  • Perfect

• The best thing about football is that the rules are so simple. Anyone can play anywhere.

  

  Jermain Defoe
  • Simple
  • Football

• I have been sent three or four scripts for television series, but there wasn't anything I really wanted to do. I want to tell a good story, whether it's a TV show, a movie, whatever. That's really my No. 1 criteria.

  

  Jorge Garcia
  • Good
  • Movie

• All agreed that the sensation of coasting on the air was delightful.

  

  Octave Chanute
  • Air
  • Flying
  • Aviation

• To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

  

  James Monroe
  • People
  • Character
  • Free

• I made it very clear, at that time, before and after, that we will not negotiate with terrorist organizations, that Hamas would have to abandon their terrorism, their advocacy to the extermination of the state of Israel, and be willing to negotiate in a way that recognizes the right of the state of Israel and abandons their terrorist position and advocacy.

  

  John McCain
  • Time

• There's a certain amount of self-aggrandising with actors, and I'm terribly shy of that.

  

  Anna Chancellor