Anthony Trollope Quotes
Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do.
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It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting.
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I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.
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I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing.
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I've done loads of things people have never seen - dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush - and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.
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Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.
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I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.
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Sometimes I feel like an impostor, and I have to remind myself, 'You are able to do this.' I look at the books on the shelf that have my name on them to remind myself I have done it before and, likely, I can do it again.
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Just about the entirety of the first album, 'Brown Sugar,' I wrote it, the majority of that record in my bedroom in Richmond. And all of the demos for it were done on a four-track in my bedroom. I think EMI was a little leery of me being in the studio producing it on my own, which is what I was fighting for.
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All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.
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I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.
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When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.
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'Tyrannosaur's an arrival for me, but it's also the first step into a new career. I don't want to be moonlighting at this, like I have done with acting. Y'know, I think I've found my career at 37 years old.
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My first album was called 'Badlands,' and it's something that I think I'm most proud of having done in my life.
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As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done.
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We've got a lot of potential on offense. But really potential doesn't mean much if you don't realize it.
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My best friend and I went to sleep-away camp every summer. We'd share stories of making out with boys, but we never did, so we made it all up. My real first kiss was at a friend's house when I was in junior high. He was such a good kisser, and we're still close friends!
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Sincere and generous collaboration is the best way to fulfil the legitimate aspirations of each person and achieve great collective goals for the common good and the general interest.
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I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.
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The free market is the epitome of life itself. This is something that all scientists recognise because science itself operates on free market lines.
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Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do.
