Basil Rathbone Quotes
Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.
Quotes to Explore
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.
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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
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When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.
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I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.
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I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.
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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
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I'm going to prove to the fans, going to prove to my teammates, that I can be a better defensive player, offensive player, to win games.
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I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.
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I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.
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I'm surprised that we've gotten to a point where we don't put our country first and put our party first.
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Big business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.
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I don't like people whose job it isn't to be funny, to tell me what is and isn't funny.
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I am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile.
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Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.
