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Albert Finney Quotes

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: british
Birth: May 9, 1936

Topics

Life Character Sad Memory Deep Go

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.

Son Walls Me World Prison Want

I'm sure people think that I'm out in left field you know, playing by myself.

Myself People Think You Know Out

A good way to make children tell the truth is to tell it yourself. Keep your word with your child the same as you would with your banker.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Good Truth Children Yourself Child

You've got Washington picking winners and losers. And so, all of a sudden, decisions are being made on what helps politicians, not what helps the economy. Some will call it socialism. Some will call it a command and control economy. Whatever it is, it's antithetical to the American experience.

Experience Control Socialism American

I love the blues, but I love a lot of music.

Love Music Blues Lot I Love

It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a lyric with what I wanted to say.

Writing Say Emotion Started Been

I would say 'woman' used to be a noun, and now it is a noun and also an adjective. And words change their functions in that way. It's one of the most common phenomena about words. They start as one thing, and they end up as something else.

Change Woman Words Start End Say

Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.

Good Fear Choices You Bad Sometimes

Movies and media really can influence us. A few years ago, my daughter wanted to be a dancer; since Obama came into office, she now wants to be a lawyer and get into politics and maybe even be president.

Daughter Politics Influence Lawyer

You don't grow up naive in Africa.

Grow You Africa Grow Up Naive Up

I'm just concerned with winning, not individual accolades.

Winning Individual Just Concerned

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.

Work Good Story You Need Heroes

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