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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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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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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It's special to have people see you and tell you, 'You make me laugh.' That makes me feel good. I think if you have the talent to do it, it's your duty to pass it on.
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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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I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
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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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To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.
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It's a fun thing to do: Go to a shooting range with a buddy, knock off a few rounds, release stress.
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That's how I learned how to act. I learned by doing it. I didn't start acting until I was 37.
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Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences of the application of what she thought to be a renewing ideology.
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I hate workout classes... Every time I go into one, my anxiety is really high. I leave immediately - like, before the warm up!
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I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.
