Ralph Fiennes Quotes
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.
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Time is generally the best doctor.
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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Our economy creates and loses jobs every quarter in the millions. But of the net new jobs, the jobs come from small businesses: both small businesses on Main Street and many of the net new jobs come from high growth, high impact businesses that are located all across the country.
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I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
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Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.
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You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
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When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.
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There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.
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I think films about men are often about characters who don't want to express their feelings. You're supposed to kind of admire them for not expressing their feelings. And I feel that's a bit dull. Women's stories often have stronger emotional content, which I enjoy doing. What I really love doing is mixing that with humor.
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I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.
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Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That's not what real life is about.
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You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
