Brenda Blethyn Quotes
Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre.
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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My aunt is the director of the acapella group Black Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang with such passion and conviction. By the time I turned 15, I had plucked up the courage to ask if I could join the group. Acapella is a different discipline from singing with an accompaniment - it is much more exposed.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.
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I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.
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If you don't want to be replaced by a machine, don't try to act like one!
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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I truly believe that if you put your goals in writing, speak them out loud and work for them, they will happen.
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Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre.
