Brenda Blethyn Quotes
When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training.
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Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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My first album was completed in three months.
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I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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Honestly, you have to take care of yourself. That's probably something I have learned on the road.
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Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'
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There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage.
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When you have an iPad and 75 books on it, it's so easy to go, 'I'm bored, I'm just going to read something else.'
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When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
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When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways.
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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
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Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.
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It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.
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I don’t think you know what it’s like to have someone head over heels in love with you. What’s the good of a man who’s upside down?
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I don't have massive ambitions to be anywhere other than in this country doing good work.
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In business, you're trying to make a buck. God was good to me and blessed me. I made some money and started this foundation years ago, and it has grown in size. With the foundation it's a lot different, because the bottom line isn't how you can make more money or get a better return, it's helping the projects that you feel strongly about move forward.
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You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.
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When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training.
