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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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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Actors only have our bodies, voices, and the text. So I think actors need to have a fit and in-tune body. I was always very disciplined in wanting to have that. That's one of my favorite things - playing a role with a physical requirement.
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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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We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.
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Like water, be gentle and strong. Be gentle enough to follow the natural paths of the earth and strong enough to rise up and reshape the world.
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The biblical assertion that women are created in God's image and Boaz's advocacy for Ruth and Naomi necessarily mean women, then and now, have inherent God-given rights. This surely means the church should be at the forefront of advocating for women's rights - not merely political and legal rights, but as in the case of Boaz moving beyond the letter of the law to exceed how any culture regards women.
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I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot.
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Wouldn`t it be great for some of the Republican candidates to stand up to the money guys and say, if you want a presidential nominee who will do what the Bushes did, go from war to war, look elsewhere.
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Get an Alan Bennett script; then everybody will want to do it, no matter how big they are.
