Natascha Mcelhone Quotes

#1. My stepfather introduced me to The London Library when I was about 18; the clientele has definitely changed since then, but it is still a wonderful oasis in the middle of London.

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#2. I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.

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#3. Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space.

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#4. I have a twenty-month-old baby [girl], [and] a sixteen-year-old boy same maturity level.

Gloria Estefan

#5. In reading Twain, I often suspect he is having more fun than I am.

Gabrielle Zevin

#6. I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us.

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#7. Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.

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#8. I doubted I would need my eyes. I drew in the dark, after all.

Ilsa J. Bick

#9. I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.

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#10. Somebody once asked me how I found Peter Jackson, and I said: 'Well, I parted his hair, and there he was.'

Christopher Lee

#11. I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs about this - as groomed. I certainly rebelled against her idea of looking well turned-out. I spent several years with a shaved head in jeans and baggy shirts.

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#12. I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.

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#13. 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.'

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#14. You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.

Emily Carr

#15. I was brought up by a Marxist rationalist stepfather, so I don't believe in the supernatural or religion or horoscopes, and the absolute nature of death is quite helpful for me. My husband was there, then he wasn't.

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#16. The ideal is the enemy of the real.

Susan Block

#17. Some actors are like flowers basking in the sun - they love the attention, and the fans get what they want. With me it's different. I know the fans aren't getting what they want. And I'm certainly not getting what I want.

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#18. I always think I love work, and I knew early on that I wanted to be an actress. Then I meet people who have truly dedicated their lives to acting, and I realise that I'm so completely in the back seat.

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#19. It's how the '70s were for movies, the 2000s are for TV. I think it's a phenomenal time for TV and to be involved in it.

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#20. Growing up, I wasn't allowed dolls, and my brothers weren't allowed guns. I inherited my brothers' clothes. I was never dressed in pink, and they were never dressed in blue; there were none of those rules that people still bizarrely subscribe to.

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#21. I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

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#22. When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.

Emile Zola

#23. I've always looked old for my age.

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#24. Identification with your mind, which causes thought to become compulsive. Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everybody is suffering from it, so it is considered normal.

Eckhart Tolle

#25. I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.

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#26. I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don't.

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#27. I always keep myself busy. I'm writing. Or I'm creating something. Or I'm doing stuff with the kids. I'm up incredibly early in the morning; I go to bed incredibly late at night.

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#28. Most politicians come into politics because they want to make a difference; we just have different ideas how to do it.

Nicola Sturgeon

#29. Hollywood, what a place it is! It is so far away from the rest of the world, so narrow. No one thinks of anything but motion pictures or talks of anything else.

Dolores Del Rio

#30. Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.

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#31. When I see these guys write all this macho stuff I want to smash their heads.

John Turturro

#32. I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.

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#33. In terms of 'Solaris,' I didn't really think about the religious aspect an awful lot. There's one scene at a dinner party, and it's discussed, but it wasn't an overwhelming theme for me.

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