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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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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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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I have limited interests. I really like all sorts of gear. Guitar gear. Recording gear. Stuff like that. I like music, you know.
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
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Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.
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I won't join another band again.
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One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.
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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.
