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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When you look at all of the conservative groups in town and across the country, we all agree on the same things. Where we sometimes get into a disagreement is over the tactics to get to the endpoint.
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The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this Earth.
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You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.
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For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course.
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I was always kind of serious. It's nice to be able to play a complete bad boy who's the polar opposite to who I am.
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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.
