Brenda Blethyn Quotes
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The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.
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Justice is revenge.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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Post traumatic stress disorder starts out with nightmares, flashbacks and actually reliving the event. And this happens over and over and over and over in your mind. If you let it go on, it can become chronic and become hard if not impossible to treat.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone.
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As far being the face of boxing, I don't like to name myself that. I leave that up to the media and the fans.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.
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I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.
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The one thing that's changed for 'That Metal Show' is that it's now global; it's now on in places outside of America.
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I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that they really aren't happy with.
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
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For me dancing is not just moving your arms and legs but basically it's a very spiritual experience. It's part of me and a second nature to me. You can say it is in my blood.
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Perhaps I’m hiding from myself. Perhaps I don’t want to be what I’m supposed to be. Or perhaps I don’t want to keep living the life I already started to live.
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Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH…
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Notissimum ... malum maxime tolerabile
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I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.
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I've hung on for a long time in this business and had some success, and I think it's keeping an open mind and being curious and having a sense of humor about oneself that's important.
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It's a really cool time for artists who want to strive for a little more depth in what they want to say to come forward. We live in a very fast world right now. We've got all this media and music which is so accessible to us, it's here one minute gone the next.
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He who steals a hook shall be hanged; while he who steals the state shall be crowned as prince.
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Gods are called many by the error of some who worshipped many deities, thinking as they did the planets and other stars were gods, and also the separate parts of the world.
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Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.
