Martin Clunes Quotes
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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YouTube, as longer form, the content you make there has to keep you entertained for three minutes - or five minutes.
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That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
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Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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I'm not a journalist. I have not gone to school for this.
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Starting on February 1, 2010, and running through until May 30, I will be Toronto Public Library's Writer in Residence, working out of the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculation at the Lillian H. Smith branch at College and Spadina.
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Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been looking forward to it for a while.
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Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.
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Set politics and party aside: If it's not right for Michigan's small businesses and middle class, it's never been right with me.
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When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.
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Some celebrities like to get behind water conservation or helping the homeless get back on their feet. Me? Body grooming control: that's what I like to step behind 100 percent.
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Only when the true ends of society have nothing to do with the sublime does 'culture' become necessary as a veneer to cover over the void. Culture can at best appreciate the monuments of earlier faith; it cannot produce them.
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I've retired a couple of times. It's great, because you can just say, 'Oh, I'm sorry. I'm retired.'
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You have got to play the game with the cards that have been dealt to you, and it is of no use for you to bewail your fate because you don't hold different ones. Look them over, arrange them, and play. You certainly must play them before you will get any others, and you need never expect to have other people's cards.
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We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.
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And one of my favorites was Eddy Arnold of course. He just had that smooth, soulful voice.
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We keep horses. I have to keep working.
