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.

Martin Clunes

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• The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.

  

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

  

  Barnabe Barnes
  • Sweet
  • Where
  • Content

• Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Freedom
  • Whether
  • Rests

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

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Same
  • Circumstances

• A busybody's work is never done.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Work
  • Done
  • Never

• 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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• 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
  • Death
  • Culture
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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
  • World
  • Mother
  • Myself

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

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Good
  • Home
  • Change

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

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Thought
  • News
  • Journalism

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

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • School
  • Want
  • Yourself

• 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
  • World
  • Thought
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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
  • Up
  • Passion
  • Horse

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

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Character
  • Star
  • Hair

• Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

  

  Quintilian
  • Wish
  • Wise
  • Fools

• I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Work
  • Fun
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• What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Life
  • Time
  • Care

• As much as I hate to say it, what I'm coming to realize is that all we're really able to do is put the brakes on. Imagine going real fast in a Flintstones car, and my heel is out there. I went to Washington to change the world, and all I can do is put my heel out.

  

  Blake Farenthold
  • World
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• People love to be told stories, but it's the sugar that draws you into the theater.

  

  Craig Bierko
  • People

• The relationship with time changes when you're captive.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Time
  • Relationship
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• I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Family
  • School
  • Think

• One thing that's happened to me is I've been around a long time and I've played a lot of villains and so forth. I think it had to do with, well one thing is that I looked younger than I was for a long time. Now I think I'm suddenly starting to play people's father.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• 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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