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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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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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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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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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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I like hearing other writers just about the way they approach writing. It gives me energy for my own work. It's weird; I'm always taking notes about fiction when I'm listening to people talk about craft.
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I read the final Wallander novel, 'The Troubled Man,' not long after it was published.
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I think in order to keep America great, we have to keep America creative.
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I didn't expect us to be around after 25 years.
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It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, because there's an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.
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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.
