Jim Broadbent Quotes
I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others.Jim Broadbent
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Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.
Gary Calamar -
There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
Ramez Naam -
All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.
Walter Mosley -
I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
Ziad Doueiri -
When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.
Gary Oldman -
I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
Kate Bush
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
Warren Spector -
The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
Ted Nugent -
The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
Bahman Ghobadi -
Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
J. D. Hayworth -
Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
Victoria de los Angeles
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Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.
Karel Capek -
This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.
Dana Carvey -
It is my passion to direct movies.
Maiwenn -
It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.
Dane DeHaan -
When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
Camille Paglia -
When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
Ice T
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If you talk about your personal life to the press, you can't be mad at them when they start talking about you, because you invited them in.
Bryan Greenberg -
We're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq with a representative government that was elected by its people. We're building a new partnership between our nations and we are ending a war not with a final battle but with a final march toward home. This is an extraordinary achievement
Barack Obama -
I'm an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it's risky.
Felice Picano -
Acting opened me up.
Demetrius Shipp, Jr. -
At a certain point, the graduate school thing didn't work out, and that meant I was liberated.
Kurt Elling -
I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others.
Jim Broadbent