Anthony Hopkins Quotes
I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's why I became an actor.
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The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.
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But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I travel regularly and have learnt to be very methodical as far as packing is concerned. For example, I always check the weather in advance of where I'm going to ensure that I've packed the right clothes.
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I am often struck by the anxious inferiority many well-educated British people display towards the U.S., particularly Londoners dazzled by New York, when many postcolonials are accustomed to regarding Britain's old imperial cosmopolis as the true capital of the western world.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.
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The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.
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One thing the Giants are great at is pretty much leaving you alone and working with what you have. A lot of organizations might try to change guys right away. Not the Giants.
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Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
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From sixth grade on I was a real Pillsbury doughboy. Overweight, long hair, thick glasses.
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Our impulse as people is to try to control; as an actor, you have to give up that control.
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I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's why I became an actor.
