David Blunkett Quotes
I was affected by the harshness of government, the reality of 16-hour days, and the pressures of modern communications.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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For a long time, I so badly wanted to work with Jeremy Piven, and I ended up on 'Mr. Selfridge' with him. He was such a character - so brilliant to work with.
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When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
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'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.
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We're seeing it the same way, we're hearing the same way, we have the same conception of the situation. And so, for all purposes, we are operating with a very similar perception.
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.
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Remember that just the moment you say, "I give up," someone else seeing the same situation is saying, "My, what a great opportunity."
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The wound-tight, travel-light Obama has a distaste for the adversarial and the random. But if you stick too rigidly to a 'No Drama' rule in the White House, you risk keeping reality at bay. Presidencies are always about crisis management.
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I was affected by the harshness of government, the reality of 16-hour days, and the pressures of modern communications.
