George Frideric Handel Quotes
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
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For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.
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I remember going up and doing 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' with Paul Simon, Santana playing up there with us.
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I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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England is a nation of shopkeepers.
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There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.
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Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments.
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Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.
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Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.
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One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It's not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever.
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My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball, but no intricacies of the sport.
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Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.
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I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things in common. But I liken it to a painter switching over to photography. There are similar things - you have to be conscious of light and color and form - but it's a whole different medium.
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I can't imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am.
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I just talk a lot, that's the problem.
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Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.
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As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.
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I shudder to think of that God would do something like that through me.
