Anne-Marie Duff Quotes

That's the trouble with the suburbs: it's not a city, so you're not anonymous, and it's not a small town, so that people really care about you, but everybody kind of knows each other's business, so you're very judged.

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• The future is much like the present, only longer.

  

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• We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

  

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• The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.

  

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• We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

  

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• I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.

  

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• The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

  

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• A teacher should have a creative mind.

  

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• There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

  

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• I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

  

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• It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.

  

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• I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'

  

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• In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.

  

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• It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.

  

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• When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.

  

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• When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.

  

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• In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.

  

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• March 11, 2004, now occupies a place in the history of infamy.

  

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• If you increase your success by even a mere 10 percent, you have become 10 percent more effective as a leader than you were before.

  

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• A guy asked me what I'd do if I got a boner in the classroom, and had to stand up in front of the class. I said, "I don't know!" I thought it was funny, though.

  

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• That's the trouble with the suburbs: it's not a city, so you're not anonymous, and it's not a small town, so that people really care about you, but everybody kind of knows each other's business, so you're very judged.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff
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