Bryan Cranston Quotes
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I was reading scripts, doing coverage, for CAA. Reading hundreds and hundreds of scripts across the board, from blind submissions to 'Brokeback Mountain'. It was not always a pleasant task but something, in hindsight, I'm glad I did.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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No political event can be judged outside of the era and the circumstances in which it took place.
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst nightmares. They still know to be wary of strangers. What they don't know is whether they have more to fear from their friends.
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I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
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In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
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Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
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It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
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You can promote fights - of course, you have to - you can say 'I'll beat you' or whatever, but you cannot put family, religion, anything like that in the mix. You need to separate things. That is a line a lot of fighters cross.
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Machine translation of signs, text, and speech brings down language barriers and facilitates ever more cross-cultural meetings of like minds.
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He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair: For when they reach the scene of crime - Macavity's not there!
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I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.
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The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there; Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate And the Warder is Despair.
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Neither conservatives nor humorists believe man is good. But left-wingers do.
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Americans have almost been conditioned to believe that the majority of people who seek to do us harm are those of Muslim descent.
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My judgment is that research in 'Star Wars' is going to fail, and I believe this so strongly that I'm willing to stake my professional reputation on this. I don't believe anybody is going to build this thing.
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I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around, older people. I attribute this to a childhood spent around my grandparents - and even a great-grandparent or two. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.
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When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.
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God ain't got nothing to do with winning a damn football game.
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If you actually hang out in the countryside, which I did, it's actually quite peaceful.
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The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.
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Mixing humor and politics is something that works.
