Gary Oldman Quotes
I can't imagine childhood without 'Planet of the Apes.' I was nine or ten when the first one came out.
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I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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I made my first movie when I was five.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
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They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.
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I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
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I just couldn't live without dogs.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.
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I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.
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Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the clothes I've worn on tour, in videos and on album covers.
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The most memorable engagement for me, I suppose, was an away-day to Leicester. I went without William, so I was rather apprehensive about that.
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
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Maybe 'America first' means also that you have to deal with America first.
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Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.
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My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.
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I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.
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Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.
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I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.
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People ask me whether I see 'Star Wars' as a comedy or a tragedy, but it's really neither - it's partly a history, like 'Henry V,' and partly a fantasy, like 'The Tempest.'
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I haven't seen too many American distance men on the international scene willing to take risks. I saw some U.S. women in Barcelona willing to risk, more than men. The Kenyans risk. Steve Prefontaine risked. I risked - I went through the first half of the Tokyo race just a second off my best 5000 time.
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We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
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I can't imagine childhood without 'Planet of the Apes.' I was nine or ten when the first one came out.
