Martin Clunes Quotes
My dad was a different bloke to me and not very nice to my mum, although I never judge him. If you did, you'd become one of those people who is all-consumed by a fault in their past. And I haven't got the time for it.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
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The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.
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Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.
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They hate whom they fear.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.
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As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.
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Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.
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My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.
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Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.
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We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.
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What I should have been, you see, is a neurologist.
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My beauty regime is very simple. I just take my make-up off before bed. And oh, I always put moisturiser on. But that's about it, apart from a bit of soap maybe.
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One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.
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My dad was a different bloke to me and not very nice to my mum, although I never judge him. If you did, you'd become one of those people who is all-consumed by a fault in their past. And I haven't got the time for it.
