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Albert Finney

"We meet before the movie and she gives you charts with sounds on them and makes a tape of examples. While they are setting up the scene, I go with her to the trailer and we go through the scene and correct the speech."

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"We meet before the movie and she gives you charts with sounds on them and makes a tape of examples. While they are setting up the scene, I go with her to the trailer and we go through the scene and correct the speech."

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Donna Grant

"From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself."

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Donna Grant

"An evening like this would be empty without some reference to [politics] so let's just think of this as empty."

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Donna Grant

"The talk that does not touch the world is called alaukik [that, which is beyond the world]."

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Donna Grant

"You can edit what you write. Why not edit what you say? If it hurts somebody, you can still offer an apology or withdraw your statements."

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Donna Grant

"Your mouth is not given to you for feeding alone it is given to you to programme events and circumstance around you."

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Donna Grant

"How is power of speech (vacchanbud) attained? It is when, not a single word is uttered to make fun of others; when not a single word is uttered for wrong selfish motives, material self-gain; when speech has not been misused; when speech has not been used to gain recognition or importance from others - that is when one's power of speech is attained."

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Donna Grant

"People make you retract spoken words but they do not understand [know] that speech is a record, so how can anyone retract it?"

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Donna Grant

"There is nothing wrong in saying something, but there should be no protection [insistence] that we are right."

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Donna Grant

"I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute.That you most certainly are not. A tongue, Henet, may sometimes be a weapon. A tongue may cause a death - may cause more than one death. I hope your tongue, Henet, has not caused a death."

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Donna Grant

"Spontaneous and natural (sahajik) speech means there is not an iota of ego in it."

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Albert Finney
"She goes on the set with headphones and gives you notes. She's terrific and I always run to her now, because she is just great to work with, as well as very good at different accents."

Work

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Albert Finney
"I'm doing another Churchill. I did a Churchill for HBO and that was up to 1939 and there's talk of the war years. They were going to do it this fall, but the script wasn't going to be ready."

War

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Albert Finney
"I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all."

Hope

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Albert Finney
"I'm not bothered by the paparazzi and I don't feel hemmed in, I've never felt that. My youth, mind you, there wasn't quite the same attention to celebrities as there is now, but I've never felt that."

Attention

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Albert Finney
"My girlfriend and I rented a nice house on the river and I was there for about two and a half months, and we were just out of Alabama. I hardly got to see Alabama."

Girlfriend

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Albert Finney
"They have to exist or not in their own right. I mean, with kids, you don't say, 'Which is your favourite,' or 'Which did you enjoy bringing up the best?'"

Kids

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Albert Finney
"When I read the script, I liked the script very much and I thought it was a marvelous part for her, because I think it is a change of pace. I mean, we know how wonderful she is in romantic comedy."

Change

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Albert Finney
"Within two weeks of working with her, I realized how good she was for the role because she was absolutely with it and she has got terrific instincts, I think, as an artist, too."

Artist

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Albert Finney
"My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry."

Dad

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Albert Finney
"All we did in Alabama was have a read through with the script, but there was, 'No, well, it needs more. You've got to do this, Albert. You've got to do that, Jessica.' It didn't feel like that at all."

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