Jim Broadbent Quotes
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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It is of course very difficult to see relations between America and Iran becoming increasingly tense and knowing that it is not the people of the countries but a subset of leaders and radicals that are causing such strife. I am hoping that the spirit of the people will triumph.
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
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In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.
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I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.
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I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
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When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.
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I have differences of opinion within my own family, an Irish Catholic family. So, I do respect those that disagree.
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My husband is a brilliant cook - enthusiastic and good - but he has not mastered the clearing up as you go along.
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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
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We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
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There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion?
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I remember trying to be funny, and both of my parents were terribly funny. My father was also very dignified, but my mother was an absolute ding-a-ling, a ripper.
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If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society, then I will not only drop my defenses and my hostility, but I will sing your praises and help you to make the desert bear fruit.
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I find something funny when it lives on many levels - a level of self-deprecation, of knowledge and heightened reality.
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I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world.
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GATHERING LEAVES Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make a great noise Of rustling all day Like rabbit and deer Running away. But the mountains I raise Elude my embrace, Flowing over my arms And into my face. I may load and unload Again and again Till I fill the whole shed, And what have I then? Next to nothing for weight, And since they grew duller From contact with earth, Next to nothing for color. Next to nothing for use. But a crop is a crop, And who's to say where The harvest shall stop?
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It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.
