Brenda Blethyn Quotes
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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I was a tomboy.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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A closed mind is a dying mind.
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There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
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People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.
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Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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The cold, mean 'Sunset Boulevard' - a beautiful title, though I suspect it was shot on another boulevard - is further proof of the resurgence of art in the Hollywood of super-craftsmen with insuperable taste.
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I'm real clear, you know? There's no fogginess.
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Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.
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It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years.
