Jim Broadbent Quotes
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Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.
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Morocco is completely alive for me because I spent about a third of my life there. The first few times I went back to Casablanca, I walked through the streets and remembered how years earlier I had walked those same streets and prayed that a miracle would happen and I would leave and become famous.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.
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But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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I've never set up any golf course that would favor anybody. I try to make it exactly the opposite, which is what we did at Valhalla when we modernized it to accommodate the lengths players are hitting it today.
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Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
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I like Sam Smith and Taylor Swift. I love pop music, but I also like Sam Smith's slow songs. That would be more to dance to. I think dancers like different genres of music, compared to just a regular person.
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Kelly, Kelly, Kelly. I love your voice man, you give me chills... Brilliant.
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I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.
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Every year is beautiful, and I try to appreciate each moment in my career, but 30 was definitely one of my best.
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The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties.
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Every time I find myself stressed out, it's because I do things primarily driven by growth.
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There's something therapeutic about connecting with an audience - when there's something really sort of odd or silly that you think is funny, and conveying it to an audience.
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A lot of people found themselves working at the Factory and some even in his bed as a result of random occurrences like your call. Most famous artists have never been all that interested in meeting strangers. That was not the case with Andy Warhol at all.
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I lived most of my life with a Charlie Brown or Murphy’s Law attitude that said, “It’s normal for things to go wrong, so if anything goes right, it must be a mistake.
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Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.
