Natascha McElhone Quotes

My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'

Natascha McElhone

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 23, 1970

Topics

GoodMotherChildrenBrotherMeWhy

I'm a technician. It's like that in football and the same way in golf. I want to try to find a way that I can swing the club properly. Over the years, it's getting better and better.

Andrew Whitworth

FootballBetterGetting BetterGolf

It's the invincible arrogance of Europe's elites that gets me. These are people who have seen the euro collapse. These are people who are presiding over a migration crisis on their borders, and yet do they ever acknowledge that they need to change? No. They say they need more integration, more of our money, more control over this country.

Michael Gove

ChangeMoneyPeopleMeControlSay

I write in public libraries and sometimes coffee shops. I can't write at home and gave up trying long ago. I need activity around me that I'm forced to block out. It helps me focus.

Stephen McCauley

HomeCoffeeFocusMeTryingLong

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

Sigmund Freud

DreamsCrazyProfoundSeemMost

Normally, people give up parliament because they want to do more business or spend more time with family. My wife said 'why don't you say you're giving up to devote more time to politics?'. And it is what I have done.

Tony Benn

FamilyBusinessTimePoliticsWife

I love the 19th-century idea of the flaneur, the poet wandering through the streets.

Tom Hodgkinson

LoveThroughStreetsPoetWandering

You can't 'control' a Mars mission from Earth. The Mars mission is going to have to be controlled by the people on Mars... There is just too much involved that is out of sight of Earth.

Robert Zubrin

PeopleControlMissionYouEarth

I always played hockey, I was always a hockey fan, but I was never bitten by the hockey bug... I never looked into playing it professionally.

Chris Jericho

HockeyNeverAlwaysPlayingBugFan

Sometimes the hardest part I think for actors on '24' is some of the jargon and getting the ideas and the thoughts and the information out quickly enough and succinctly enough and clearly enough.

Cherry Jones

IdeasThoughtsThinkEnoughOut

I suppose I am interested in the variety of human life - how people live. I am most interested in individuals and how they respond to challenges or to difficulties or just to each other. I am curious about people.

Claire Denis

LifeLiveI AmCuriousPeopleHuman

If you want to go for the title, you go for the title, and you fight. You don't run away; you fight.

Bobby Lashley

FightYouGoWantRunAway

America was founded on Christians not trusting each other, and they sometimes seemed more willing to reach out to the godless than to someone from another sect.

Penn Jillette

ReachAmericaSomeoneSometimesMore

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