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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Hits and flops are overrated.
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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 already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.
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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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We want you always to feel confident shopping at Neiman Marcus, and your trust in us is our absolute priority.
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Lying in bed, I abandoned the facts again and was back in Ambrosia.
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I grew up in an acting family. I was heavily discouraged from doing it myself when I was young, which is the only responsible route to take with any child, because it's not necessarily the easiest of lives.
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The joy for me of television is the sort of family feeling of being involved with an ensemble - the cast and the crew and the director of photography and the guys in the camera truck - and you're all coming together. There's a great feeling when that is a successful unit, a successful family.
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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.
