"I'm not going to get an Oscar at 30 - that's done. So I'll think of something else."

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Source : "Meet the real Shirley Henderson" by Jane Graham, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2010.

Shirley Henderson

#Thinking Quotes #Done Quotes #Oscars Quotes

“Never tell. Not if you love your wife...In fact, if your old lady walks in on you deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around her neck 'Lay On Top Of Me Or I'll Die.' " I didn't know what I was goin' to do...”
“Intuition is the innate ability in everyone to perceive truth directly - not by reason, logic, or analysis, but by a simple knowing from within. That is the very meaning of the word "intuition": to know, or understand from within - from one's own self, and from the heart of whatever one is trying to understand. Intuition is the inner ability to see behind the outer forms of things to their inner essence.”
“Who what am I? My answer: I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after Iâ€™ve gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each â€˜Iâ€™, every one of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, youâ€™ll have to swallow the world.”
“When I was a kid, I thought I would be an action-movie hero. I was like, "They're gonna be able to CGI my legs by that point." And then I realized that it was probably better if I stayed a little closer to who I actually am rather than trying to be Bruce Willis.”
“It's never the right time to take a particular stand.”
“We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we're winning. In Grace under Pressure, by Hastie, 1984.”
“A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.”
“New Haven cultivates ... an open gloom that seems happy to acknowledge disrepair and the superfluity of appearance. ... I realized that what cramped the town was the weight of unwritten volumes: they scored lines of unfinished writing on every second face that walked the streets ...”

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