Kenneth Tynan Quotes
Every speech, for Olivier, is like a mass of marble at which the sculptor chips away until its essential form and meaning are revealed. No matter how ignoble the character he plays, the result is always noble as a work of art.
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Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
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The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes.
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
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I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.
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My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.
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I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.
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Look: You're not gonna become a millionaire doing this, but that was never the point. And I think a lot of people in the indie film business kind of took their eye off of that.
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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
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Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.
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I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.
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Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.
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Every speech, for Olivier, is like a mass of marble at which the sculptor chips away until its essential form and meaning are revealed. No matter how ignoble the character he plays, the result is always noble as a work of art.
