Joseph Fiennes Quotes
What I don't find compelling is doing classical plays that everyone already knows - and people are following with the text in their hand because no one is listening.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic.
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I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
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I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt 'n' vinegar crisps.
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I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
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I suppose, to be fair, I don't miss the energy of youth very much - because I was never fit. So it doesn't matter not being able to walk miles, striding the countryside, taking deep breaths and enjoying the scenery. That was never on my agenda.
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I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
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Nothing can be better calculated to advance our interests and character than the establishment of a liberal and disinterested policy, enlightened by patriotism and guided by wisdom.
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To fix India's healthcare scenario, what is most needed is 'systems thinking.' For far too long, India has followed a vertical approach in its health sector, which translated into disease-specific national programmes being set up.
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When I was 13 my dream was to play the U.S. Open. Now it's to win it.
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Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.
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Dick Clark and I had such a hysterical relationship with each other.
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At the moment I really love listening to the Dave Matthews Band.
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After my mother and father separated when I was 5, my mother moved to Washington, D.C., and my father remained in North Carolina. Later, I moved to New York and would often drive down to D.C. to see her. We'd ride around together talking and listening to music.
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I stand behind everything I've done.
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I think that an advanced planetary civilization will modify their own planets to be more stable, to prevent asteroid impacts and dangerous climate fluctuations.
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A-bop-bop-a-loom-op-a-lop-bop-boom.
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What I don't find compelling is doing classical plays that everyone already knows - and people are following with the text in their hand because no one is listening.
