Michael Gambon Quotes
Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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If you're driving, and a cop is behind you, you automatically think they're going to pull you over, but cops have so much more going on than to think about pulling you over. The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth.
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A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.
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We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves.
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I think I'm like a free spirit.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.
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Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.
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Big doors swing on little hinges.
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Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no scientific evidence of their truth. But since we are dealing with invisible and unknowable things (for God is beyond human understanding, and there is no mean of proving immortality), why should we bother with evidence?
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I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.
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I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.
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If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
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Yoga has helped me to see death as more of a gift than a loss, and that has been my experience so far.
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Australia's beautiful, but I'm not too into Australian culture.
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I've talked with a lot of teachers, classroom teachers after the Sandy Hook situation, and they say, look, we need to be looking at mental health.
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Should one of your employees have a physical or mental health problem, I would argue that it is as much something for the employer as the individual to contend with.
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Stress on fast growing companies comes from a lot of different places. The one that is often the largest, and creates the most second-order issues, is the composition of the leadership team. More specifically, it's specific people on the leadership who don't have the scale experience their role requires at a particular moment in time.
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When you're part of the first family, your life tends to get played out in front of the whole nation.
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Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.
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And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters
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Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.
