Ioan Gruffudd Had you met me when I was 18 I was very, very patriotic almost to the point of sounding a little bit bigoted or racist, but then I moved away, came to London, my eyes were opened and I saw the world. – Ioan Gruffudd Bigoted Quotes Bit Quotes Eyes Quotes London Quotes Met Quotes Moved Quotes Patriotic Quotes Racist Quotes Sounding Quotes I defy any British actor to deny they’ve not stood in front of the mirror and said: ‘Bond, James Bond.’ Los Angeles gets a very bad rap, the perception, especially by us Brits, is ‘Oh, it’s so fake,’ but it’s the antithesis!
Polly Toynbee Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge. – Polly Toynbee
Christine Baranski Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me. – Christine Baranski
Siri Hustvedt With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee Krasner, are only fully embraced very late in their career. – Siri Hustvedt
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek We will admit that, out of the mud or sand which is found on the seashore or the beds of our rivers, at low water, shellfish or testaceous animals come forth, but it does not from thence by any means follow that they are produced without any regular course of generation. – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Seth Moulton Some of the most controversial things I’ve said about President Trump, I’ve heard from Republicans. But it’s just that I’ve heard them in the locker room. That’s what people actually talk about in the locker room – how terrible our president is. – Seth Moulton
Mack Brown We need to all reach out to our parents and say that we love ’em and care for ’em and make sure that they know that. Because we got a hard world out there. – Mack Brown
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