Anne-Marie Duff Quotes
We thought we were going to have a girl, so we had 15 girls' names lined up and a little boy popped out. We had no idea, and we had hardly any boys' names.
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.
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I would like to do something that pushes me as an actress to make me better. I would love to do something dramatic or crazy. I think that would be so much fun.
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The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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Drive around through the state of Oklahoma, and you find some areas that really need to be improved.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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When you buy anything with lots of leverage, it does not require a whole lot to go wrong to lose it all.
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The writing is really important in books that affect me. I read for the writing. The story is usually of less interest to me. It's the words that break your heart.
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There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem.
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We thought we were going to have a girl, so we had 15 girls' names lined up and a little boy popped out. We had no idea, and we had hardly any boys' names.
