Antonia Thomas Quotes
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
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The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
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Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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I'm the best Twitterer.
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I like to think of myself as classy.
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I've been an actress for years, and I've worked with one female director. Statistically it's less than 7% or 12% - I mean, it's low, not representative. So, hopefully, more women will be given opportunities to direct, or create opportunities to direct themselves.
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I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
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There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.
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My dream is to stand in front of 60,000 people in an arena and know that everyone came because they wanted to make memories with me.
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The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
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As an actress, I'm constantly watching different shows and films and am always gathering information and inspiration for characters and techniques to make my performances the best they can be.
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I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm not going to work against my people. They've suffered enough.
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I've been lucky enough to be too busy for TV because if I'm not, I'll get stuck in front of it.
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I'm a bit hyperactive as an actor, I like to keep moving.
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It's not about me. I think people are too caught up with what I'm doing. It's just numbers. I'm trying to win.
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Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on canvas - in the basement of a public library not a dozen miles from my mother's house.
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I would have liked to catch hold of sleep at least once, just as I had been resolved to catch hold of death one day, to catch hold of the wings of the angel of sleep when it came for me, to grab it with two fingers like a butterfly after sneaking up on it from behind. [...] My sleep game was practice for the grand struggle with death.
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Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.
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I am a director's actress in general - I depend a lot on them.
Jacqueline Fernandez -
I'd love to get my teeth into Shakespeare.
