Anna Friel Quotes
When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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I was just finishing up 'Spotlight' in Toronto - I finished it on a Tuesday and started 'True Detective' on a Friday. So I was missing rehearsals, unfortunately, which I hate and why I never like to work back-to-back.
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The characters in 'Ray Donovan' are not very articulate - we're the worst Irish family you could ever live next to in L.A.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.
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My baby will be growing up in Liverpool, so we have another Scouser.
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Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.
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I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
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I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.
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California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
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When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.
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The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dives as the men now.
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I would wake up really early and go into the hotel bathroom, put a towel over the toilet, and put my laptop there. I'd put my headphones on and just write. And so now when I do writing sessions, and I am stuck on a part, or I can't figure out a chorus, I'm just like, 'Give me a second,' and I'll go to that bathroom.
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I've always come into a show when the show was already up and running.
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In films I might look glamorous, but I've been in hair and make-up for two hours.
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It's no longer permissible to have sexist comments, but growing up in this industry, I spent time in many other organizations where it was just commonplace for men to talk about how a woman looks or give a woman a little bit of a harder time in a meeting and then say, 'I'm just joking - it's because I care about you.'
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There are a lot of different facets to my personality that I don't use all the time in my house, or in everyday life, that I can experience and share when I'm on a stage.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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I believe that one of the things Christianity says is that sound doctrines are all useless. That you have to change your life. (Or the direction of your life.)
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I've only worked with very professional people.
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When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.
