Colin Firth Quotes
My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
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I'm not desperately looking for a man, but I'm sure one of these days, I'll find my Mr. Right.
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I'm going to go to work out, and I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to eat really healthy. But I'm going to go to Vegas, and I'm going to stop at In-N-Out Burger, and then I'll be back on track.
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Home is most important in the long run.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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My given name was Zahra, which is the 'flower of the desert.' I don't look anything like the flower of the desert. My name was changed by my grandfather to Iman, which means 'have faith.' And it meant to have faith that a daughter would come.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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I'm the third of five children.
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I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.
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I wanna make weird stuff.
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When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.
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The gospel funk soul era, that's what I'm obsessed with - pretty much all the '70s through early '80s.
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If we're still talking about the same thing 40 or 50 years later, then that means we're not doing anything about it.
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Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box.
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A lot of people think being at the top means you have to be the best at a certain game. You don't. It's more about personality.
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My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.
