Tamsin Egerton Quotes

Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.

Tamsin Egerton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: November 26, 1988

Topics

WomenGreatChanceStrongAlways

I'll be damned if I'm going to let the white man lick me. There's something out here that I've got to do for my kids, and I'm not going to stop until I've done it.

Medgar Evers

ManMeWhiteStopDoneOut

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive.

Robert Fisk

GovernmentThinkGoQuestionPolicy

I get very tired of violence in crime fiction. Maybe it is what life is like, but I don't want to do it in my books.

Ruth Rendell

LifeTiredViolenceWantCrimeGet

There is no debating that, under President Obama, corporate profits are at their highest levels in decades.

Juan Williams

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When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

MomentReflectionPreparationStart

My mind never left 20, because once it does, that's when you start to die.

Dick Dale

MindStartDieYouNeverLeft

I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.

Deborah Harkness

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I've lived in Washington since 1981 and have been a faithful reader of 'The Washington Post' ever since.

Christopher Buckley

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There's something about being onstage, man. No matter what age I am or where I'm going, theater will constantly be the thing that accepts me and embraces me.

Brian Tyree Henry

AgeManI AmMeWillMatter

Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.

Phyllis Schlafly

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I try to hop into a new personality as often as I can.

Peter Sellers

PersonalityI CanNewTryOftenHop

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