Anne-Marie Duff Quotes
You can't worry too much about profile; otherwise, you become a different kind of actor, and that's not the kind of actor I want to be.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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Apparently, Daniel Craig said I'd be a great Bond. Daniel, why did you say that? Dropped me right in it! What an honor it would be, but also, what an indication of change.
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I don't want to become known as just a body.
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I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
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To be among the world's greatest athletes and compete for Team U.S.A. while knowing that the entire world is watching is something that athletes dream about. To be able to experience that was truly special.
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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.
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Most of what happens in the world is far beyond a dog's comprehension, so they must turn to their faith in us to help them navigate life's treacheries. Don't we, also, have unanswerable questions about the vagaries of modern existence for which the answer is beyond human grasp, so that only our faith can guide us?
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Since I leapt into the world an empiricist, ideality was not a quality I wanted.
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If there's something you know and there's something you feel, but you can't quite express it, you will hear it somewhere. And you don't have to worry, because someone will get it sung out.
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I've purposely made my music to be challenging and different. There's some electronics, R&B, blues, Motown, country, jazz and lots of soul.
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Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.
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When you're healthy, you can do so many great things.
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You can't worry too much about profile; otherwise, you become a different kind of actor, and that's not the kind of actor I want to be.
