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" There's no good way to waste your time. Wasting time is just wasting time. "
Helen Mirren
Time
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Wasting Time
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" The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recognition. Unfairly so. It's a world that needs women. "
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" Hollywood is a very small world; the people who matter matter, and the people who don't matter are just like nothing. "
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" Flesh sells. People don't want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies. "
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" Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. Or a child. "
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" The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives. "
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" I'll tell you what me scares me is plastic. Plastic bags and plastic bottles and these things. Why does my water have to be in a bloody plastic bottle? The landfill and the ocean. And I don't know, I'm just terrified with the proliferation of plastic. "
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" Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning. "
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" Sometimes nudity is sexy. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes being clothed is more sexy than being nude. "
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" I always love working with young actors, because there's always something to learn. It's always exciting to see the next generation and how they approach things and what's great about them and what's not so great about them. "
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" You can't control how other people see you or think of you. But you have to be comfortable with that. "
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" At the time of the Silver Jubilee, I was a grumpy anti-monarchist. I didn't celebrate and was appalled by the celebrations. In my idiocy, I missed out! I feel completely differently now compared with that time. "
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" My parents believed in education and economic security, and I thank them for it. Because I think that's part of what's made my life stable. It was instilled in me. You have to be able to pay your bills. You do not get into debt. And I never have been. "
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" I've always found as an actress that the best thing to do in film or TV or theater is just to lose yourself in it. Think of the story, the character, the worlds we're in, and forget everything else. "
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" People with Parkinson's are not some weird people on the edge of human experience. "
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" I'm not a republican any more. Not so voraciously anyway - I'm not in favour of the concept of monarchy, but I do see the good in it if there's a good person in the role. "
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" I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness. "
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" I drink just as much tea when I'm in Los Angeles as I do when I'm in London. I take my tea bags with me wherever I go. "
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" I am quite spiritual. I believed in the fairies when I was a child. I still do sort of believe in the fairies. And the leprechauns. But I don't believe in God. "
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