Jim Broadbent Quotes
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.
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I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
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I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.
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When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
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Just as the lunar landings inspired many young people to consider careers in space and related fields, the solution of the challenging instrumentation problems presented in space science can inspire young people to push beyond the current state of the art.
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These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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Like most people, I shrink from exposing my innermost secrets and my most private and intimate actions.
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Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.
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My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
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No two wars are identical.
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Everyone has some dysfunction in their families. They have to deal with it. You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person.
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We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.
