Anne-Marie Duff Quotes
I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.
Quotes to Explore
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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Water for People is a non-profit international organization that brings together communities, entrepreneurs, governments - people - to create solutions that empower people to maintain their own reliable water systems and sanitation.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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There are lots of antagonists in the 'Jane Yellowrock' series, but one stands out as uber-evil to me, and that is Lucas DeAllyon.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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God does arithmetic.
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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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I tend to work quite a lot during the weekends. My weekend can often be about two hours on Sunday.
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Most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working.
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Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.
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I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games.
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I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.
