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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You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
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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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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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President Obama gave a speech about healthcare tonight, and yesterday he gave a pep talk to students. He told them that in order to succeed they need to work hard and study hard. Then today, former President George W. Bush presented the rebuttal.
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Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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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.
