Gemma Whelan Quotes

There's something really wonderful about making people laugh, and if you can find the laughs within a dramatic piece, it's also very rewarding.

Gemma Whelan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 23, 1981

Topics

PeopleLaughYouFindWithinPiece

When there's something I need to focus on, I'm like a dog with a bone.

Jimmy Iovine

DogFocusNeedBoneSomethingLike

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

SocietyOthersTalkMisunderstood

Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before.

Anita Hill

LifeMy LifeWillEvenDiscreetUse

As I've said, I've been advised not to get into the specifics out there. Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely.

Jeff Gannon

TruthSaidYesOutGetBeen

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.

John Stuart Mill

PainPreventionPromotionPleasure

And indeed, last week, the FBI executed a search warrant on my residence. This happened one day after my attorneys had left a message on the lead FBI investigator's voice mail confirming my continued readiness to answer questions and otherwise cooperate.

Steven Hatfill

DayVoiceSearchQuestionsWeek

My colleague Bill Keegan has written a very short book ('Saving the World?') on an unlikely topic - he is the first economist to try to rehabilitate Gordon Brown.

Simon Hoggart

WorldBookShortTryFirstBrown

There were a lot of kids from Puerto Rico at my high school in Florida; people always assumed I was Puerto Rican. Even now in California, I get talked to on the street in Spanish constantly!

Torrey DeVitto

SchoolPeopleHigh SchoolPuerto Rico

I'm very keen on the family getting together around the table because you learn so much of what's going on. With a full tummy, they begin to talk to you. People now have busy lives, but once or twice a week, it's lovely to sit all around together.

Mary Berry

FamilyTogetherPeopleBusyLearn

Leaving your hair down to sleep causes friction on your ends between your body heat and the pillow case. Securing the ends away from your body helps preserve your ends.

Jonathan Van Ness

SleepHairBodyDownYour BodyHeat

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

Domhnall Gleeson

FatherMyselfMeWayYounger

If D-Day - the greatest amphibious operation ever undertaken - failed, there would be no going back to the drawing board for the Allies. Regrouping and attempting another massive invasion of German-occupied France even a few months later in 1944 wasn't an option.

Douglas Brinkley

DrawingBackGreatestGoingAllies

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