My dad is Scottish, and he read in the newspaper about the plight of the Scottish Freshwater Mussel, which is a real thing - like, a very real, serious conservation issue. And he's a writer, and he was going to do a film about a Glaswegian gangster, and then I stole the idea and turned it into a romantic comedy.
Talulah Riley
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There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself.
Maurice Baring
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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov
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Republicans do need to communicate that we agree that there are serious health care issues among the American people that we need to solve.
Thom Tillis
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If G20 leaders are serious about sustainable growth and job creation and want to stem migration flows and promote long-term stability, education is an essential investment.
Julia Gillard
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In the changing-room, I'm seen as one of the jokers. I like to have a laugh; there are quite a few of us. That what helps make a good atmosphere in the changing-rooms. You've got to have a few jokers but obviously serious when the time comes.
Jamie Vardy
GoodTimeLaughYouSeriousSeen
I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
Sally Schneider
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I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.
Ann Beattie
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I think I get angry when people cause serious suffering or don't alleviate suffering when they could.
Peter Singer
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I was pretty serious about pursuing forensic science as a profession. In fact, I pursued an internship at the office of the chief medical examiner here in New York.
Sarah Weinman
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Like all of us, we have pretty serious mood swings.
Josh Silver
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There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country.
James Forrestal
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Flamethrowers have been used by many armies in many wars, including by American Marines in Korea and Vietnam. They cause horrific deaths and are thus a serious public-relations liability. The U.S. military apparently phased them out in 1978.
Rachel Kushner
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It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
Andy Summers
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I just think the less you know about an actor, the more serious you'll take them as an actor because they will disappear a little bit.
Peter Dinklage
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It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
Sandra Day O'Connor
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I know when it's time to joke and when it's time to be serious. As far as football goes, I'm serious.
Jason Pierre-Paul
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I think I have serious latent Catholic guilt issues.
Grimes
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I didn't really get serious about my own writing until I was convinced it was something that I wanted to do, that I wanted to spend that much time alone.
Owen King
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I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure.
John Woolman
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I want to win. I want to play serious. I want to be effective.
Pep Guardiola
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Donald Trump's whole candidacy from the time he started has been filled with myths by the media that he couldn't - he was not a serious candidate.
Paul Manafort
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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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There might be some serious fun in politics.
Hunter S. Thompson
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