Pierce Brosnan Quotes
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What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?
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It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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I'm a typical Irishman in that I only get home for weddings and funerals.
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When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.
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I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.
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I am the skeptic of skeptics.
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The commercial and subsidised theatre are intrinsically linked. I wouldn't have had the career I have had without the opportunities I had through the subsidised sector. However, I do think, in any walk of life, subsidy for the sake of subsidy is not always healthy.
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The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.
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As to what I would like to be. It is difficult to say. An Artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts. People have always frightened and bored me, consequently I have been within my own shell and have not accomplished anything materially.
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Male-female fusion does not create women’s rights. It creates a fusion of rights.
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The first idea is an imagined thing.
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After the commonplaces of everyday life, with their muffled dramas, all my organic expertise for dealing with physical injury had long been blunted or forgotten. The crash was the only real experience I had been through for years.
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Vorpal had the trick of adding a Malay enclitic to his utterances. This also had power to irritate, especially in the mornings. It irritated Nabby Adams that this should irritate him, but somewhere at the back of his brain was the contempt of the man learned in languages for the silly show-off, jingling the small change of ‘wallah’ and charpoy...
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Some fella said to me, 'Have you had LSD, Paul?' And I said 'Yes.' And it was only 'cuz I was going to just be honest with him. There's no other reason. I didn't want to spread it or anything, you know. I'm not trying to do anything except answer his question. But he happened to be a reporter, and I happened to be a Beatle.
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The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.
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I hate pockets in trousers … By the way, I do not wear a hose. My hose is my own. No coke bottle, nothing stuffed down there.
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To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.
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I'm a country girl. The more big cities I go to, the more fashionistas and designers I meet who want to dress me, the more I have all these kind of superficial but amazing experiences, the more I just realize that I'm from Gloucestershire.
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I look back on my work and I think, 'Oh, why didn't I do that differently?'
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I've never been difficult to anybody or with anybody on a picture. Especially when you're in that nice status of hierarchy of actors and actresses who get to approve directors. Because once you make that choice, it's my belief that the director's boss.
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No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.
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An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
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I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.
