"When I'm doing theatre, I feel like my life's on hold. Even though you might go out for a coffee, or go and see a film, your brain is still there, pulling you back to it."

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Source : "Shirley Henderson: I'm every woman" by Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2011.

Shirley Henderson

#Coffee Quotes #Brain Quotes #Theatre Quotes

“He shrank from hearing Margaret's very name mentioned; he, while he blamed her--while he was jealous of her--while he renounced her--he loved her sorely, in spite of himself.”
“The saying 'the arts aid the body' is for samurai of other regions. For samurai of the Nabeshima clan the arts bring ruin to the body.”
“People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened.”
“I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.”

Source : Entertaining Mr. Sloane act 1 (1964)
“We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.”
“I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want.”
“Listen more often than you speak.”
“Politics and hypocrites is turning us all into lunatics.”

Source : Song: You're The Man, 2006

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