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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The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body.
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Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.
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We should not blur the lines between legal and illegal immigrants. Millions of people around the world have gone through the process to come here legally and they followed the rules that required them to pay a fee, learn English, and learn about American history and government.
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The British boys really, really go nuts... to them, an older woman is sexy, and it's an incredible fantasy... I think the American fantasy is still about men wanting control. Maybe American men don't feel as in control of their lives.
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All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.
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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.
