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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When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.
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I agree with my colleagues, even the one who just preceded me, that marijuana is probably a dangerous drug, and I would not suggest that we do anything to encourage its use.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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Martin Scorsese was being given an honorary doctorate, and one of the tutors asked if there was a student film he particularly liked. He mentioned our film. There was a dinner after the final show just for the tutors, but I was smuggled in to meet Scorsese over dessert.
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I'd love to get my teeth into Shakespeare.
