Antonia Bird Quotes
You can't generalise, of course, but there is a school of American acting where there is a kind of pride in the number of takes you can do.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.
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As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!
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My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.
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The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.
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Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all.
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A tin roof is one of the greatest indicators of prosperity in the developing world.
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People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true crime tale, we find ourselves fascinated because we're trying to understand why people behave the way they do, why they make the choices they do, how we become who we become.
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I don't see myself as being a heart-throb at all.
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So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff.
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You can't generalise, of course, but there is a school of American acting where there is a kind of pride in the number of takes you can do.
