Anne Reid Quotes
I used to lie in bed and imagine I was performing at the Albert Hall, not that I'd ever been there. I took lessons with a German teacher when I was quite young. But it turned out I had a very high soprano voice, which I didn't like at all.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
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I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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There's a system in place in Nashville, and for a long time, I was trapped in this idea that the only way to do it was to come to town, get a record deal, and do it the way they say. And that system works. But it caters to a specific kind of artist, and I didn't necessarily fit that mold.
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
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I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.
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I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.
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Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
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Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
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Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?
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For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.
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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
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We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.
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'Ashes To Ashes' is a victim of its own success. We started lots of trends. I like to think we had something to do with bringing back the high waist. It's so much more flattering.
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When people think of the word 'drive,' they often think you have it or you don't, and that's where we're wrong. Drive is something that can be encouraged by a wonderful teacher, by a terrific classroom environment, by an awesome soccer team that you are on, and it can be squashed as well.
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I did very well when I was younger, and I am fine.
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The National Forest Ski Area Permit Act of 1986 needs to be updated to reflect our growing communities.
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I used to lie in bed and imagine I was performing at the Albert Hall, not that I'd ever been there. I took lessons with a German teacher when I was quite young. But it turned out I had a very high soprano voice, which I didn't like at all.
