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Maggie Smith Quotes

I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: british
Birth: December 28, 1934

Topics

Think Know Nervous Shy Who Course

If you want to train for big mountain endeavors, spend time in big mountains.

Time Mountains Mountain You Train

I do a little thing about the way people shake the sweetener packet. You know, like they're all excited. I want to get all the granules down to one end. I love all these rituals.

Love People End You Down Know

A shot is a lever; it's all it is. You don't open a car door differently each time. A car door is efficient - it opens and closes. So is a shot.

Car Time Door You Open Differently

In a way, I started 'Goon Squad' not even realizing I was writing a book. I thought I was just writing a few stories to stall before starting this other book that I wanted to write - or thought I wanted to write: I still haven't written it.

Writing Book Thought Squad Way Just

My whole intention is to break down these limitations of what a black comedian is supposed to be and to open up a space.

Space Black Intention Down Open Up

I spent a lot of my twenties wanting a maid, really. I thought I wanted a relationship, but I just wanted somebody to fix and nurse me, and I'd take her hostage for six months. When you're 23, 24, you want to be in a relationship because they look brilliant - you've heard all the songs about it and seen all the movies and it looks great.

Robbie Williams

Relationship Great Me Thought Look

The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low points in it, but I'm not giving up, and I'm not gonna engage in phony pep talks, either.

Freedom Battle Giving Giving Up Over

Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking.

Michael Nesmith

Intelligence People Moon Thinking

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

Joyce Carol Oates

Life Great Industrial Industry

You wanna work with people who you have a rapport with. You finish each other's sentences a bit creatively when you've worked together for a while.

Work Together People You Finish Who

In the first year in New York, I went to this amazing teacher named Jen Waldman. She does lots of different classes, but one of her classes was where you went and worked on a song. And suddenly I felt like an artist again, and because I had worked the whole song, when I went into the audition room, I could connect to something in the 16 bars.

Teacher New York Amazing Song Year

The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance.

Faith Determination Balance People

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