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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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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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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I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it.
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The first time I fought Ian McCall, I cut carbs completely out of my diet all through training camp. I was afraid I wasn't going to make weight, that I'd get on the scale, and it would be all, 'He weighs 128,' and the people would throw cabbage at me. I basically cut all carbs on the diet, just eat chicken and greens all the time.
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All the people I have written about remain with me - perhaps they are my closest friends.
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I've had countless reviews sort that have made me cry. It's funny, it doesn't ever get better either; you can't turn your ears off.
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I grew up going to see my sister dance, both at the ballet and later as a modern dancer, and have always been a big fan of the ballet. So I have had a long relationship with dance.
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I try to look in the future and think backwards. That is when I am at my most comfortable. Because then I am just like the movie, 'Back to the Future.'
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The power of propaganda is to say something enough times that it becomes the Big Lie.
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You priests are called 'another Christ.'
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Besides the fear of ending up with the totally wrong person, the first time between two persons is underscored by two things: desire and awkwardness. The awkwardness of the first time when two individuals touch each other is never lost on the young...or the old.
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I don't suppose anybody's ever enjoyed being who they are more than Arnold's enjoyed being Arnold Palmer.
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Get an Alan Bennett script; then everybody will want to do it, no matter how big they are.
