"Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that."

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Source : "Matthew Macfadyen: 'I do have a good eye'". Interview with Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2010.

Matthew Macfadyen

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“You got to hidey-hide, you got to jump and run again. You got to hide-hidey-hide, the old man is down the road.”
“I value my ability to keep state secrets.”
“On Waterloo Bridge where we said our goodbyes, the weather conditions bring tears to my eyes. I wipe them away with a black woolly glove And try not to notice I've fallen in love On Waterloo Bridge I am trying to think: This is nothing. you're high on the charm and the drink. But the juke-box inside me is playing a song That says something different. And when was it wrong? On Waterloo Bridge with the wind in my hair I am tempted to skip. You're a fool. I don't care. the head does its best but the heart is the boss- I admit it before I am halfway across”

Source : Wendy Cope (2011). “Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006”, p.34, Faber & Faber
“God is the highest place within each and every one of us. It's our divine self.”
“I wanted all the responsibility to rest on the content of the story. I tried to make the visual style almost invisible.”
“The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this perpetual and shifty problem of conciliation.”

Source : Bernard Crick (1954). “In defence of politics”, p.17, Bernard Crick
“I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.”
“Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me.”

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