Martin Clunes Quotes

I found out when I was 18 that Dad had left my mother and the family before he realised he was ill and then died. When I asked Mum about it, she just sort of shrugged it off and said she'd thought I knew about it all along. Of course I hadn't, though I'm sure she must have been desperately unhappy at the time.

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• The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.

  

  Najib Razak
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• Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
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• Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

  

  Ted Turner
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• Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
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• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
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• A busybody's work is never done.

  

  A. N. Wilson
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• I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

  

  Zoe Kazan
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• I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.

  

  T.I.
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• I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.

  

  R. Kelly
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• I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
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• Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
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• My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

  

  Halle Berry
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• Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.

  

  Gabby Douglas
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• At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
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• I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.

  

  Aaron McGruder
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• I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'

  

  Vera Farmiga
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• I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.

  

  L'Wren Scott
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• So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.

  

  Kate Upton
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• I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.

  

  Sadie Frost
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• When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.

  

  James Franco
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• Yes, I've heard of the 'Mad Men' comparisons, but I like to think 'The Hour' has its own distinctive voice. Although it is set in 1956, I have tried to give it a contemporary edge, and its themes of love, passion, romance, fury, professional jealousy, and personal failure are universal, I think.

  

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• I always end up hurting myself doing something mundane. If I have to do some complicated stunt, I'm fine.

  

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• The truth of the matter is I stayed in L.A. raising my children, and when they went to college, I packed my bags along with them and came to New York and looked for parts in the theatre, because that's always what I preferred doing.

  

  Andrea Martin
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• I found out when I was 18 that Dad had left my mother and the family before he realised he was ill and then died. When I asked Mum about it, she just sort of shrugged it off and said she'd thought I knew about it all along. Of course I hadn't, though I'm sure she must have been desperately unhappy at the time.

  

  Martin Clunes
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