Anne Reid Quotes
'Downton' took a long time to catch fire in America, but we have been getting good reviews for 'Tango.'
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I feel very keenly the eyes of the foreign media on our country. And I think a lot of Japanese people feel that things are not working the way they should. When the time comes, I will put myself forward.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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If you kill someone, it shows that you are afraid of that person.
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From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.
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The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.
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I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
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The first time I heard The Beatles, I cried. It was 'Let it Be'.
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I do situations and make fun of authority and life.
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With movies, so much of it is, 'Who is the human being that is going to be directing it?' Because it is their medium. In a way, you are serving the director, and when it is someone that you feel you can have a lot of confidence in, it can make a big difference.
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There's so much love that has been sent to that area ... And I'm proud to be one of the senders. But I'm a receiver, as well.
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'Downton' took a long time to catch fire in America, but we have been getting good reviews for 'Tango.'
