Brendan Coyle Quotes
Sometimes I think I missed out on things like travelling. I'd have been terrified of missing an audition. I didn't start a family because that's not something I take lightly. Acting meant so much to me.
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The world is always in movement.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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Long-, medium- and short-grain rices differ in the amount and type of starch they have.
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I can bear my own sorrows, but the sorrows arising from the calamities visiting Islam and Muslims have crushed me. I feel each blow delivered to the Muslim world as delivered first to my own heart.
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In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.
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I like to do Pilates.
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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I really love big scarves. I have a whole bunch.
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A lot of people don't know what it's like to actually be hungry. I do. I've also slept on the streets.
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The secret to keeping moving is keeping moving.
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I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?'
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After a while, you want to sell a lot of records, win awards and touch as many people as you can, but you have to secure the foundation with your family. I'm a family man, but I'm a businessman, too.
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Sometimes I think I missed out on things like travelling. I'd have been terrified of missing an audition. I didn't start a family because that's not something I take lightly. Acting meant so much to me.
