Francesca Annis Quotes

I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.

Francesca Annis

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I've kind of always had this balance between genre and personal dramas. It almost feels like the two help each other. If I was just to make a genre film, maybe it would be hollow and soulless. If I was just to make a personal drama, maybe it would be melodramatic and nobody would ever go see it.

Jeff Nichols

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'Anchorman' is really good.

John Ross Bowie

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I want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher.

Amy Lee

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Private monopolies run by special interests should not get to raise taxes and set regulatory policy for the United States.

Mike Pompeo

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More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television.

Mindy Cohn

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I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.'

Derek Blasberg

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I'm a big fan of horror movies. But I prefer visceral to viscous, let's just say that.

David Slade

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I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.

Christopher Hitchens

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.

Christine Keeler

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It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers.

Bob Filner

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