Anne-Marie Duff Quotes

There are some roles you just don't say 'no' to. Those compass points: you get them so rarely as an actress.

Anne-Marie Duff

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• The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Art
  • Act
  • Possibilities

• When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Taken

• Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Art
  • Criticism

• I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Decision
  • Religion
  • Thought

• Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • World
  • Go
  • Royalty

• We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at anyone. I do. But you've got to forgive and move on.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • God
  • Love
  • Angry

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Feeling
  • Anymore
  • Kansas

• I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Fun
  • Myself
  • Now

• Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Free
  • Consequences
  • Bullying

• From my experience in working with bureaucrats and politicians, if you are a credible business group, they will definitely help you. At the end of the day, they, too, want development of their constituency, state or country.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Country
  • Business
  • Experience

• I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Work
  • Stand
  • Human Rights

• Improving small business opportunities through federal contracts creates jobs and saves taxpayer money.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Money
  • Business
  • Small

• You see, at 25, I was very new to my craft. I was raw as an actor; my exposure was limited... No matter what field you are in, experience adds to your personality.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Experience
  • You
  • Personality

• Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Singing
  • Acting
  • Self

• To be feminist doesn't mean you can't be submissive.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • You
  • Mean
  • Feminist

• Look, natural gas, just like oil, is going to eventually go away. It's not renewable.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Like
  • Look
  • Oil

• I have a lot of energy after 2 A.M. I like to sleep in the morning. I have some problems at the start of the day.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Morning

• The edge of a black hole, the event horizon, is a boundary that marks the point of no return. Once an object crosses the event horizon, it cannot escape and will be ripped to pieces, atom by atom.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Black

• I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a vein which nature seems to have marked with more or less strength, in the tempers of most men. No matter what the object is, whether business, pleasures or the fine arts: whoever pursues them to any purpose must do so con amore.

  

  William Melmoth
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Art

• Kids out there now have learning issues. Having mental issues. And everybody is looking towards what drug to give them, but is anyone looking at the food that the children are eating? What you're eating has a big impact.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Giving

• There are some roles you just don't say 'no' to. Those compass points: you get them so rarely as an actress.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff