Joseph Fiennes Quotes
There are always going to be times when it doesn't flow as much as you were hoping. So of course I'm going to fail. And when I do fail I hope I fail better and better, again and again. I am happy to fail.
Quotes to Explore
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Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.
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I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.
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The Olympics are very proprietary about letting others promote and market what's going on, so we shut down for 17 days, and they don't let us do a whole lot in return for giving our players to them. We don't get compensated, and we've never looked for compensation.
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The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.
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Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.
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That's one thing the musicians don't remember: you don't choose your demographic - they choose you.
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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
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I think my own personal style always ends up seeping into characters that I play. I've always had a very distinct idea of fashion for myself, and what a character should wear.
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Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.
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I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies. There's something really weird and surreal about it that I find energizing.
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I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore.
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I grew up teaching parts to choirs, and I love a whole group of voices singing as one.
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Only the highway of useful service leads to the city of happiness.
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What's interesting in scripted TV is different than what's interesting in reality TV. Each of their departments have their development process where they package things and put together the writers and put together the producers and the different elements and develop the projects. By the time you get to a network or to a studio, you're able to say this is the project, here's who the producer is, sometimes even here's who the star is, here's who the writer is. It's a well-developed project by the time it gets to the studios.
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True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
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In the studio, if they need to come down to the floor, things are a bit pushy, although it is easier for them to say things directly rather than through about five people.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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Most of my days in the office end like this: I am in a meeting, it's running over, and I am starting to panic because if I don't leave the office right this second, I will be - yet again - late picking my kids up from school.
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There are always going to be times when it doesn't flow as much as you were hoping. So of course I'm going to fail. And when I do fail I hope I fail better and better, again and again. I am happy to fail.
