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 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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It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
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One of the nicest satisfactions you can have is to be able to give something back to your parents when they've given so much to you.
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I don't believe in other people's ideas. I have my own ideas.
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I think that, in addition of the intersection of media and technology, there has also been an intersection between technology and finance, which is something I find a little closer to home, seeing as I spend so much time covering Wall Street banks.
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Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead.
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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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.
