Bob Hoskins Quotes
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.
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I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.
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We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.
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There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.
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I do myself up kind of like a doll. I have a doll collection and I look at their outfits and kind of imitate them.
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There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn't like hurting the bait.
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There's no way to reconstruct reality. It happened once. What you do is reinterpret and recreate. Even if you have the person who lived it and did it next to you, the event happened just once.
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I could stand to lose some weight.
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A little roller up along first; behind the bag! It gets through Buckner! Here comes Knight and the Mets win it!
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It could never happen in Denmark, Danish people are much more calm than those further south.
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A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance.
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I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human. I felt very very puny as a human. I thought, 'Fuck that. I want to be a superman.'
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Dominic Sherwood would always tell me a joke right before it was my take or my close up. He'd say a funny joke, and I couldn't stop laughing, even after they said, 'Action.'
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I'm praying we don't go to war with Iraq. If we do, I may have to go back to work earlier.
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I got into the race because I'm concerned for my children, and for the opportunities they don't have. Really, it's for the same concerns that the people of the 16th district have. They're concerned about jobs.
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The operation of the imagination in life is more significant than its operation in or in relation to works of art... in life what is important is the truth as it is, while in arts and letters what is important is truth as we see it.
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When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.
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I'm having a good time watching Shooter. He's a good kid. He's been a good son to me. He has never failed.
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If you are going to do a film properly you have to give yourself completely to it.
