Anne-Marie Duff Quotes

The first thing that attracts me to any script is the writing. If I find myself becoming lost in a good yarn, then I feel certain that others will, too.

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• A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Healthy
  • Research
  • Economics

• It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • House
  • Reason
  • Constitution

• Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Government
  • Internet
  • Skills

• I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Play
  • Working
  • Class

• I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

  

  Becky G
  • Want
  • Ideas
  • Creative

• When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Best

• Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.

  

  Faith Hunter
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Career
  • Finish
  • Coach

• In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Today
  • Democracy

• In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Writing
  • Short
  • Medicine

• I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.

  

  Ted Rall
  • American
  • Society
  • First

• Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • You
  • Understand

• Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Deep
  • Very
  • New Years

• You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • People
  • Light
  • Down

• Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Me
  • See
  • Australia

• I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Desire

• The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Well
  • Arts
  • Thrive

• Don't know much, but I know I love you.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Love
  • Know
  • Much

• In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image - a new year.

  

  Arabella Weir
  • Time
  • Long
  • Exercise

• I missed the Wilco phenom while busy obsessing over rock en Espanol. So imagine my surprise when I found myself at O'Hare getting on a plane with my Chi-town homeboy, Jeff Tweedy. I loved the guy right away and loved his family. How odd to know somebody before you listen to them. I don't know if that's bad or good.

  

  Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Good
  • Family
  • Bad

• I'm very careful with my emotions, and I don't let them run free. If I'm upset, it's usually for a very good, very deep reason.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Good
  • Free
  • Running

• I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films. I got grants from NYSCA and NEA for an idea, which later became 'Huckabees,' about a guy in a Chinese restaurant who had microphones on every table and heard every personal conversation and would write perversely personal fortunes.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Guy

• The first thing that attracts me to any script is the writing. If I find myself becoming lost in a good yarn, then I feel certain that others will, too.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Lost