Anne Reid Quotes
My father was full of tales. He said his family were ministers in the Church of Scotland, or they were lawyers.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Acting is in your soul.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I don't really yell at people.
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America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
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My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.
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Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.
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I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
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Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's more time than some people spend with their own families, so it does affect the dynamic between the actors.
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When Europeans feel sufficiently provoked and threatened–a few serious terrorist attacks could do it–Europe's Muslims will be lucky just to be deported...
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If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?
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I love golf. But do you know how I got good at golf? Because of Charles Barkley. I was playing with Charles, Michael Jordan and Roy Green, and Charles was talking so much trash. On every shot, he was talking trash. So I left the tournament, and I went and practiced for a year and half.
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I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.
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I can't wait to be able to drive, but it's hard. Good driving doesn't really run in my family genes. My mother is possibly the worst driver ever.
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My father was full of tales. He said his family were ministers in the Church of Scotland, or they were lawyers.
