Joseph Fiennes Quotes

Working backstage as a teenager made me realise there's not much glamour in this profession - just lots of hard work. That's a good thing to learn early on.

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• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Heart
  • Think

• The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Think
  • Beauty
  • Architecture

• If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Writing
  • Energy
  • Hand

• I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Important
  • Failure
  • New

• An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Home

• Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Knowledge
  • Nothing
  • Without

• I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Money
  • House
  • Kid

• I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Done
  • Feel
  • Television

• There are musicians who go through their lives sort of shedding their skins. For me, I've always felt backward-compatible to Version 1.0.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Always
  • Lives
  • Musicians

• We've only made three investments: Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Made
  • Three
  • Facebook

• Ruzzle's my therapy. When I get off the stage from a packed show and I'm exhausted, I'll just go Ruzzle for like a good 30 minutes.

  

  Wale
  • Good
  • Stage
  • Therapy

• The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Culture
  • Quality
  • Investment

• I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • House
  • Never
  • Someone

• Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries.

  

  Hans Blix
  • You
  • Television
  • Between

• I'm all those things, even though I don't want to, in the confuse depth of my fatal sensibility.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• I was never proud of anything. I just did it like everything else. To do a film - let me explain to you - it's like having a baby. You labor, you labor, you labor, and then you have it. And then it grows up and it grows away from you. But to be proud of giving birth to a baby? Proud? No, every cow can do that.

  

  Luise Rainer
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Proud

• The only way physical comedy works is if you don't see it coming. And the harder the fall, the funnier it is. You have to really take some shots, and I've walked away with some bumps and bruises.

  

  Chris Pratt
  • Comedy
  • Fall

• General Atomics, the progenitor of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, started life in 1955 when a major military contractor, General Dynamics, feared that the military hardware market might dry up. It began exploring peacetime uses of atomic energy, but abandoned the effort when cold-war military spending took off.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Life
  • Up
  • War

• It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto

• The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Best
  • Too Much
  • Plants

• I never, ever drink while writing. Never have from the start, and I'm happy that I never have to. A lot of my stuff is plot-driven and mathematical, and I think you need a clean and sober mind to pin down the logistics of that.

  

  Martin McDonagh
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Happy

• The meeting [in San Antonio of the National Women's Political Caucus] featured a cattle show at which a herd of Democratic candidates- Glenn, Cranston, Mondale, Hart, and Hollings- pantingly pantomined their fidelity to feminism, stopping just short of a pledge to use nuclear weapons against any states that omit to ratify the Equal Right Amendment.

  

  Daniel Seligman
  • Political
  • Democratic
  • Feminism

• Have I had therapy? I went to a yoga class once.

  

  Dylan Moran
  • Yoga

• Working backstage as a teenager made me realise there's not much glamour in this profession - just lots of hard work. That's a good thing to learn early on.

  

  Joseph Fiennes
  • Work
  • Learn
  • Backstage