Claire Foy Quotes
You're more inclined to be cynical about your own country, and you romanticize it from the outside. And why not? It's much more interesting than thinking, 'Oh, everyone's struggling and normal.'
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
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My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time.
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I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.
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I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.
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Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
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It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.
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I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.
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Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track, you'll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you're on the right track'. Interesting little conundrum. It's not easy.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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Most of us tend to be swayed by what we read. Judges are not superhuman. They, too, are mortals. This is why they have to be exceptionally careful in rendering decisions, which cause unintended consequences.
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If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
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I know that I have a special stomach.
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I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.
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At the end of the day, I remain a country boy inside.
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We need clarification regarding the death penalty. It's different in many states... It's a bit different throughout the country, so I look forward to Judge Gorsuch being on the court, Justice Gorsuch being on the court, and bringing some clarification to those issues.
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I had more trouble than I had a sense of utility or satisfaction. But it served to occupy me and to keep me occupied in a field that I love - which was cinema - while I was waiting to realize the film that I wanted to do, which was Once Upon a Time in America, which took ten years of thinking and working to realize.
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Laws are subordinate to custom.
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It's not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character.
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Personally, I like sex and I don't care what a man thinks of me as long as I get what I want from him -- which is usually sex.
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Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.
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You're more inclined to be cynical about your own country, and you romanticize it from the outside. And why not? It's much more interesting than thinking, 'Oh, everyone's struggling and normal.'
