Jim Broadbent Quotes

An Oscar clears the deck of envy and resentment. You think, 'Well, I've got that. I can relax now.'

Jim Broadbent

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• It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • World
  • Emotions
  • Mysterious

• Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hate
  • Him
  • Communist

• I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Truth
  • Giving
  • Now

• I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Think
  • Me
  • Like

• The thought of going on tour with people like Toyah Wilcox is just appalling. I'm certainly not tempted.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • People
  • Like
  • Thought

• I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Work
  • Fashion
  • Style

• This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Good
  • Control
  • Passion

• For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Strong
  • Fear
  • Interesting

• The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Real
  • Fair
  • Valley

• As an Ambassador for PSI and a supporter of Nothing But Nets, I have met individuals around the world who are lending their ideas, their voices, and their time to improve their communities and the world at large. And there are millions more that I have not met.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • World
  • Ideas

• That's another piece of advice: Don't go to college; follow your dreams. Unless you're a doctor - then go to college.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • College
  • Advice
  • Dreams

• A weaker currency is a national tariff. After we get a weaker currency, we have to take advantage of that. Or else, we will waste it once more in inflation and in the inability to raise competitiveness.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Will
  • Once
  • Take Advantage

• We can not underestimate the potential harm North Korea's capabilities can cause for the rest of the world.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • World
  • Rest
  • Potential

• It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• When I first watched 'Coraline,' I thought, 'If that ever got adapted...' If it was done by real actors, I think that would be a really fun thing to do, just because it's a kind of whole new universe.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Real
  • Done
  • Fun

• But I think primarily, it's the fans that make this race.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Think
  • Fans
  • Race

• Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Art
  • Science
  • Wonder

• I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Believe
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• I wouldn't say that I relax and enjoy anything. But I think my pessimism helps. I never really expect anything good to happen, so when it does, it's a nice surprise.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Relax

• Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy.

  

  Peter Lamborn Wilson
  • Fire
  • Envy

• Often the best way to relax is just to go back to work.

  

  Steve McQueen
  • Work
  • Back
  • Relax

• DIRECTIONS FOR USING: For THINKING:-Wind the Clockwork Man under his left arm, (marked No. 1). For SPEAKING:-Wind the Clockwork Man under his right arm, (marked No. 2). For WALKING and ACTION:-Wind Clockwork Man in the middle of his back, (marked No. 3). N. B.-This Mechanism is guaranteed to work perfectly for a thousand years.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Action

• An Oscar clears the deck of envy and resentment. You think, 'Well, I've got that. I can relax now.'

  

  Jim Broadbent
  • Relax
  • Envy