Anna Maxwell Martin Quotes
As a young girl, I was too intent on getting to London and drama school and out of east Yorkshire to think about winning Oscars. I did win a Bafta once, and was so unprepared for it I jabbered on for a minute - a minute too long.
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There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I am pleased to tell you that he is finally getting some rest and is regaining his appetite as well.
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Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
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I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
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In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
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My mum was a dancer. She would tour the world with a group, and she had me in a dance class when I was still in a nappy. They told her to come back when I could walk.
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Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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People always give me styling products and stuff.
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His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
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I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
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If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.
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When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end.
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Both EarthEcho and Seventh Generation understand that young people have the power to change the world - one home, one school and one community at a time.
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I don't know how, where, and why the idea for 'Defending Your Life' began; the idea had been bouncing around for a while. Stories like that sort of have to bounce. They don't come out of nowhere. I went through my own period of life with sort of everything turning upside down, and wondering, 'Why is it this way?'
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As a young girl, I was too intent on getting to London and drama school and out of east Yorkshire to think about winning Oscars. I did win a Bafta once, and was so unprepared for it I jabbered on for a minute - a minute too long.
