Mark Rylance Quotes
If I were to do a sequel, it would be with Sophie as a very old woman and The BFG the same, a bit like that 'Let the Right One' in film.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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I'm proud to support Secretary Clinton.
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.
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Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
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Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.
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I think what history has done to Jewish people, frankly, cannot be made good by giving them a piece of land.
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Thinking of possibilities is like driving a car on a freeway. You have an open road that stretches endlessly before you where your thoughts are not shackled. But when we say 'impossible,' we have already reached a dead-end in our minds. So dwell on possibilities to open up your horizon.
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We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.
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I would provide more opportunities for the kids of urban communities to go to school and learn trades - to get more jobs to take care of their families.
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I believe that a different therapy must be constructed for each patient because each has a unique story.
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I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.
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There was a time when I was offered two episodes of 'Alias,' that show with Jennifer Garner which J.J. Abrams did back before he became the mega producer and super successful director. I instead decided I wanted to play this family guy on a short-lived UPN 'Second Time Around.' It starred Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker.
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An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.
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Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.
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'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.
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You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.
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I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.
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The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and 'consciousness' cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and 'will' cannot evolve involuntarily.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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I don’t get sick of either of those songs. When we play them, they get such a huge enthusiastic response – how can you get sick of that?? And I think they are both good songs, interesting to perform – we develop them live all the time.
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Obviously, I got very lucky that even though I lost my mother, I lost her later in life, but it's still had a profound effect on me.
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If I were to do a sequel, it would be with Sophie as a very old woman and The BFG the same, a bit like that 'Let the Right One' in film.
