Anne-Marie Duff Quotes
People can be a bit flagrant when they're having an affair. Most of the time, there's an element of it where they want to be discovered because they're in crisis. They need the boil to be burst, in some way, for a resolution.
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Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.
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On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?
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But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing.
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I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.
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I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.
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We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.
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I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.
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Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.
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I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.
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Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.
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I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed.
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I can put my legs behind my head. That's a fun fact that not a lot of people know!
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I love clothes so much. I feel like whatever I wear is an insight for other people to get to see who I am, or for me to portray how I'm feeling.
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The attitude among the people I knew was, 'Fleur wants to be a singer' but it was never, 'Go for it. You can do it.' Everyone was cynical because we'd never seen anyone where we came from do it.
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After Hurricane Sandy, my family and I stayed in our apartment in lower Manhattan before things normalized. We're lucky enough to live on a bit of high ground, so we weren't flooded... but it was intense. Since there was no light, water, or electricity, I spent a lot of time playing acoustic guitar in the evenings.
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When I was growing up, we didn't have much money. What was important in my house was to have food on the table, be happy, and have our family.
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We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
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They were three of the quickest guards I've seen.
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I grew up in a very bohemian environment in southern Sweden, so I was always, always, always in black jeans.
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People can be a bit flagrant when they're having an affair. Most of the time, there's an element of it where they want to be discovered because they're in crisis. They need the boil to be burst, in some way, for a resolution.
