Anne-Marie Duff Quotes
There are people out there with three jobs and small children. Being an actor is a walk in the park compared to working as a cleaner overnight. I'm lucky I'm not plucking chickens.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
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When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.
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Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.
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Okay, let's talk about cartoon labels for half a second - some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien is garbage, which is not true. Look at Big Moose Red. It's, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and it's actually a solid wine.
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All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they're not. It's interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.
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The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.
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The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.
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I think that you do get a little extra jolt of confidence when you win an Emmy.
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As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.
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I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.
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I'm trying to stay focused on what I'm doing. I don't want a whole lot of things going on - people to call back, or text messages or whatever. I chill out, relax a little bit, and then I don't have those issues.
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I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better get out of this.
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My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.
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When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable.
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Music... immerses us in seemingly stable worlds! How can this be, when there is so little of it present at each moment?
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Initially, I tried to become an aid worker and someone who could help people, but I was unsuccessful in convincing anyone that I could be of any use. So I went and became a war correspondent without any experience in war or in being a correspondent. So that was daring.
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It's almost un-American to say that you want to change football.
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There are people out there with three jobs and small children. Being an actor is a walk in the park compared to working as a cleaner overnight. I'm lucky I'm not plucking chickens.
