Jim Broadbent Quotes
In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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Talent is very hot.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
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The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.
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I grew up in a family where our mother made our clothing. We didn't have a lot of money, so we learned how to scrimp, and we learned how to invent and to create. And those are learned skills.
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I dont fully understand my wifes emotions - and Im supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women?
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated of any city on Earth; and looking back at it, I realize what I owe to its unique and crowded humanity.
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In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.
