Anna Friel Quotes
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Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
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I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.
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I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
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What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.
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Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
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People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.
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Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
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Terrorists convince thousands of people to kill themselves in the name of God. I can't convince two of my friends to help me move.
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I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd rather just pick up the phone. Or Skype.
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If it feels like we're re-creating something rather than creating something, we don't do it.
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Hamm: If I could sleep I might make love. I'd go into the woods. My eyes would see … the sky, the earth. I'd run, run, they wouldn't catch me.
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The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.
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What Miss Moore’s best poetry does, I can say best in her words: it 'comes into and steadies the soul,' so that the reader feels himself 'a life prisoner, but reconciled.'
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In fact, contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
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It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here.
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He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.
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The first deaths will barely swell the daily count, and no one in the statistics bureau will notice that extra zero. But after a while everyone will begin to look at each other and ask: what's happening? Because for months doors and windows are going to rattle, furniture and trees will creak.
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An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.
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I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.
