Edmund Burke Quotes
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I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.
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My hero is Roger Federer.
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I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.
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After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I hadn't thought of acting before that.
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Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.
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People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
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I am inspired by show girls and Vegas. I was a cabaret performer, so that's where all that influence comes from.
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We all get paid very, very well, and we have responsibilities.
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I read French much better than I speak.
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I never set out to do this; I never set out to say, 'Can I break this record?' Then all of a sudden, the preparations made for the celebration put pressure on me. I said, 'Okay, I have to get there.' After 2,130, there was sort of a realization it was a foregone conclusion you're going to play tomorrow.
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So many people trip in front of them because they're looking over there or up ahead.
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My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.
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Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards.
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A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
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We've been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can't do - about what is impossible.
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Move every day. Like taking a shower and brushing your teeth. Make it a part of your everyday life.
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A good education gives you confidence to stick up your hand for anything - whether it is the job you want, or the bloke. And the more you stick up your hand, the better your chances are that you will get what you want.
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When you're someone in the media, the good thing is, I guess, that you can reach a lot of people.
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I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.
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The absence of political personalities in the government will help rather than hinder a solid base of support for the government in parliament and in the political parties because it will remove one ground for disagreement.
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Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
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In my business, you should be very strong in mind. You have to be sure about yourself and about your work and your career, and you have to be strong inside because so many people come around and try to say bad things about you.
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When I get a script, it's the only time that I get to be an audience member with the first-time experience of that movie. That's the first and only time.
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There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
