I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself. - Emily Watson - Quotesmemo.com

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Even the disc jockeys are saying, if I play your record, I made you. You got to play for me free.

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Emily Watson

I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.

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And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing.

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I've always been creative, I think.

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It's an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It's like looking right into the heart of the film, and you can't take that lightly.

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My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It's an interesting, subtle relationship.

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Friends always say you don't realise how robust your baby is until you drop it.

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Even the disc jockeys are saying, if I play your record, I made you. You got to play for me free.

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When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities. ' It was just for entertainment - we read it aloud - and all of a sudden it became a treasure.

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David Hockney

I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.

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Anita Shreve

I guess that's the point of drinking, to take all the feelings and thoughts and morals away until you are just a body doing what a body will do.

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Parker J. Palmer

Let’s not forget that American democracy started with ‘We the People’ agreeing to work hard to create ‘a more perfect union. ’ We’ve lost the idea that politics begins at home with what happens in families, in neighborhoods, in classrooms, in congregations. We called this democracy into being – and if we want to call this democracy back to its highest values, it’s got to be the us doing that calling. That’s not going to happen if ‘We the People’ don’t know how to talk to one another with civility and hold our differences in a creative, life-giving way.

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