Martin Fry Quotes
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I've worked with lots of musicians - like Tina Turner - and I love when they go in front of the fitting mirror and do their thing, pose, dance. I love that moment!
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.
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In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
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I am a big fan of the Gallagher brothers. At Liverpool, they came a few times; they are friends of Steven Gerrard. It was nice to meet them. When I was in Spain, I couldn't speak English, so I couldn't understand the lyrics. When I came to England, I started studying music and trying to understand what my favourite songs said.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
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All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.
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Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.
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'Amazing Grace' is not a book of interviews or onetime snapshots. It's a memoir of a journey that took me into a place I had never been and took over two years of my life. I don't think the people in this book would have said the things to me that they did if they perceived me as a reporter.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.
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The suburbs are the American dream, right? Living in a nice house, having a good job, a happy family.
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It's a pleasure playing your big hit records and it's a real joy to see the audience.
