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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To be honest, I found the 3D in 'Avatar' to be inconsistent and while ground breaking in many respects, sometimes I thought it overwhelmed the storytelling. Technology aside, I wish 'Avatar' had been more original in its storytelling.
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To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.
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During the run up to the Iraq War, Mike Farrell and I did get on television kind of frequently, but then they saw that that didn't work. They really couldn't bait us into being stupid, so they stopped. You know the mainstream media, corporate media, avoids ever giving anyone who has anything to say a platform, if they can possibly help it.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.
