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It is a culture voice, but it is a very American culture voice, and I am very used to English culture voice. So I had to work like hell to flatten those R's. Christopher Plummer

Work Culture Hell Those Voice Had Like Am Very American American Culture Flatten Used English

I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal. Christopher Plummer

First Believe Unreal Got Fan Al Letter Al Pacino

I admire Ridley Scott, and I'm thrilled to be making a movie for him. Christopher Plummer

Admire Thrilled Him Making Scott Movie Ridley Scott

In Montreal, when I grew up, I'd go to the Notre-Dame Basilica, a gorgeous cathedral in town. I'd listen to huge symphony orchestras, Pavarotti singing operas; that was absolutely marvelous. I like that aspect of the cathedral, the spectacle. Christopher Plummer

Gorgeous Singing Symphony Montreal Marvelous Absolutely Town Like Operas Cathedral Go Huge Up Listen Orchestra Grew Aspect Spectacle

I actually was brought up by an Airedale. I don't really remember my parents, especially my mother. It was only the dog that I saw. Christopher Plummer

Dog Remember Mother Parents Saw Brought Only Up Really Actually

Simon Pegg is terribly talented, very funny, such a delicious sense of humour. Christopher Plummer

Funny Sense Humour Simon Delicious Talented Terribly Very

My great-grandfather was prime minister of Canada, and I had a very Edwardian upbringing. It was a beautiful, romantic way of growing up, until the family lost its money. And I decided to be bad and rough and find the streets rather than the gates. Christopher Plummer

Beautiful Family Money Lost Way Bad Minister Find Rather Had Prime Prime Minister Until Great-Grandfather Edwardian Up Very Upbringing Than Canada Romantic Decided Rough Growing Growing Up Streets Gates

I didn't have to keep a bloody journal. It's terribly boring keeping a journal anyway. I hate it. You spend more time writing down life instead of living it. Christopher Plummer

Life Time You Hate Writing Down Living Spend Boring More Instead Journal Terribly Bloody Anyway Keep Keeping

I love trying to give some flesh to rather naked bones sometimes. I've always felt it my duty and to try and bring on the character's off-stage life, what happened that is not revealed. Christopher Plummer

Life Love Character Sometimes Try Naked Duty Some Give Rather Felt Revealed Always Trying Happened Flesh Bring Bones

I was an only child, so I was very demanding. I enjoyed it thoroughly, but I wasn't very pleasant. Christopher Plummer

Demanding Pleasant Thoroughly Only Only Child Very Child Enjoyed

I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class. Chrystia Freeland

Class People Wealth Entitlement Sense Think Top Kind Both Bubble Powerful For The People Makes Understand Very Middle Middle Class Which Hard

The main point of democracy is to deliver positive results for the majority. Chrystia Freeland

Positive Democracy Positive Results Point Results Deliver Main Majority

Most of the conversation about how geopolitics is changing in the 21st century focuses on the shift from west to east and on how we're moving from the bipolar power equation of the Cold War to a new bipolar relationship, that of the U.S. and China, that determines the mood music for everyone else. Chrystia Freeland

War Music Relationship Conversation Power Bipolar Cold Cold War Changing Else Everyone Everyone Else Mood East About Determines New Most Equation How Shift West China Moving Century

In a globalized economy, jobs no longer need a passport, but workers do. Chrystia Freeland

Jobs Longer Economy Passport Workers Need

Talking about income inequality, even if you're not on the Forbes 400 list, can make us feel uncomfortable. It feels less positive, less optimistic, to talk about how the pie is sliced than to think about how to make the pie bigger. Chrystia Freeland

Positive You Think Sliced About Uncomfortable Feel Feels Pie Talk Forbes Make Talking Inequality How Optimistic Than List Bigger Us Less Even Income Income Inequality

As companies become bigger, the global environment more competitive, and the rate of disruptive technological innovation ever faster, the value to shareholders of attracting the best possible CEO increases correspondingly. Chrystia Freeland

Executive pay has skyrocketed for many reasons - including the prevalence of overly cozy boards and changing cultural norms about pay - but increasing scale, competition, and innovation have all played major roles. Chrystia Freeland

Fancy GPS systems and space-age tractors are what most excite the farmers I know and astound their city friends. Chrystia Freeland

Systems City Excite Know Most Friends Fancy Farmers

One of the great, and largely forgotten, triumphs of American society and government has been how smoothly U.S. farmers and their communities negotiated the creative destruction of the early 20th century and emerged triumphant when it was over. Chrystia Freeland

I think of myself as a Russophile. I speak the language and studied the nation's literature and history in college. Chrystia Freeland

Myself History Speak Language College Nation Think Studied Literature

My late mother moved back to her parents' homeland in the 1990s when Ukraine and Russia, along with the thirteen other former Soviet republics, became independent states. Drawing on her experience as a lawyer in Canada, she served as executive officer of the Ukrainian Legal Foundation, an NGO she helped to found. Chrystia Freeland

Legal Experience Mother Parents Lawyer Other Late Back States Ukraine Ukrainian Drawing Independent Russia Along Executive She Became Canada Officer Soviet Moved Former Republics Helped Homeland Found Foundation Served Her Thirteen

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