Anne Reid Quotes
Get an Alan Bennett script; then everybody will want to do it, no matter how big they are.
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I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.
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I've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.
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Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.
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An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.
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The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings because that was my reference point for comics storytelling in general.
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We allow no geniuses around our Studio.
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The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.
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I believe in traditional marriage.
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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'
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Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
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If you try to kill yourself for a role on the TV show, you'll succeed. It's too long, it's too much. So, it's tough, but the challenge is a good thing.
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There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; they're not afraid of it.
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I'm amazed by just constantly - there's not a week that goes past where there's not someone in Ulan Bator or Rio De Janeiro suddenly says, 'Ooh, 'Downton' started this week.' You completely forget it's staggered across the world.
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The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.
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Cows are my passion.
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I love clothes but it's a struggle for me to get out of jeans and a baggy jumper.
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Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.
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I did a lot of serious plays, and I did the Oxford Review as well, which is supposed to be funny, but I'm not sure how funny we were when we did it. Then, when I finished my course, it was only then that I decided to go to drama school and try and do acting because I was enjoying it so much and so on.
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The competition to get above the rest and be the lead commentator, or whatever you want to call it, is much fiercer than it was when I was starting out. By the same token, there were not as many jobs going back then, so to get one was an achievement in itself.
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If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.
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Get an Alan Bennett script; then everybody will want to do it, no matter how big they are.
