David Bronstein Quotes
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
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I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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A lot of cats are not that social.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
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I'm realistic about my career as a novelist. I'm certainly not a superstar and far, far from a household name, but I feel successful.
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Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
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Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
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My grandmother studied medicine in the Forties, which was very rare in Egypt, and my mother was a university professor, so my idea of religion wasn't about a woman not working or having to dress in a certain way; it was more to do with the faith.
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There are a lot of female characters out there that, when they fall on hard times, they sort of stew in their fears and negativities and vulnerabilities. And there's something that's really truthful about that - when I've gone through hard times or breakups, I've spent a lot of time on my couch overeating and crying with friends, that's true.
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In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.
