- Nov 07, 2020
Matter Quotes
On what actually counts.
This page starts with a striking reframe of confinement as something that can happen mentally even to people who are physically free, and pairs it with career advice about simply landing that first entry-level role. For related thinking, see Life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Get an Alan Bennett script; then everybody will want to do it, no matter how big they are.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did go to public school, but that's only because my parents were abroad. As a matter of fact, I think that's helped my work. I can go from Victoria Wood's 'Dinnerladies' to playing Barbara Cartland, from 'Coronation Street' to playing Celia in Last 'Tango'.
- Nov 07, 2020
A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!
- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't matter how rich or poor you are: when you're sick, you want the exact same thing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a profound resistance to the idea that a reader could say, 'Oh, well, that's her story.' We should all be interested, no matter where we come from, or who our parents are. It's not my province; it's ours. These questions concern us all.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to sing. I couldn't not sing. If it was singing to a living room full of people or an auditorium, it didn't matter. I had to sing. I was meant to sing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so they can't be bad. That category only exists in the adult mind.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether 'Avatar' is racist is a matter for debate. Regardless of where you come down on that question, it's undeniable that the film - like alien apartheid flick 'District 9', released earlier this year - is emphatically a fantasy about race.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm constantly playing this game in my head where I'm thinking, 'Can this quote be pared down and misinterpreted?' It doesn't matter what outlet I'm talking to and how comprehensive the interview is, because I have to think in terms of, 'Right, but 'People' magazine could just take this one quote and take it out of context.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a good script is a rare thing, and I think no matter who you are you have to fight for the good ones.
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- Nov 07, 2020