Jim Broadbent Quotes
A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.
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If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
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Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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Just as liberalism is the main force that drives conservatism and maintains its popularity in some quarters, conservatism is the reason liberalism continues to enjoy the traction that it does in our poor civilization.
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You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
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In my household growing up in Fayetteville, N.C., music was the great communicator between my parents and me.
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I definitely felt the pressure I wanted to live up to all of the expectations.
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Ever since I started writing music, I've wanted to know what the songs are about and to be able to tell stories.
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A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.
