Anne-Marie Duff Quotes
When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that there were family ties to the theatre, either.
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The signs of climate change are visible across the nation, from the drought-stricken fields of Central California to the flooded streets of Michigan. Extreme weather is turning people's lives upside down and costing communities millions of dollars in damaged infrastructure and added health care costs.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.
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I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works on the mainland.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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I just think political correctness is crap.
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The challenge in multi-lateral negotiations is not to lose sight of one's over-arching goal in the midst of the cacophony of opinions at the bargaining table.
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I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, 'You so black, you purple.' 'You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.'
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Coaching the Bruins is like going bear hunting with a butter knife.
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Your life continues in those who continue the revolution.
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My family is basically Gypsies - for real.
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I have a song called 'Decisions' that features Jamie Foxx, Mary J. Blige, John Legend and Common. It's about people who have made a decision to really stand by you as friends.
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I'm not good at normal things. I can't drive a car. I couldn't read till I was 10.
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Stereotypes happen. I try not to embrace them or avoid them.
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I was working in this very bombastic style. I didn't really know about style. I didn't think about it: I did what I was interested in, what I was attracted to, what I was drawn to. I was drawn to color, and I was drawn to humor, and I was drawn to sexuality and spontaneity. It was all really intuitive. I never really thought, "Well this is the style...
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When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that there were family ties to the theatre, either.
