Frances Fisher Quotes
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I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'
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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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As for pressure, there's always the desire to give my best to every film. After all, so many people put in so much of hard work.
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In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.
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There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'
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I used to carry a bag of records down to my friend's house every Friday, and we'd sit down and play all the records I loved, and we'd look at the album covers.
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I don't think it ever works to tell people what they can't eat. They can do it for so long, and then they fall off. You have to bring them into a new relationship with food.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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Copernicus never discusses matters of religion or faith, nor does he use argument that depend in any way upon the authority of sacred writings which he might have interpreted erroneously. ... He did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict the Scriptures when they were rightly understood.
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I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
