Bernard Beckett Quotes
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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The real war will never get in the books.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
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The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
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A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
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I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.
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For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.
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From my standpoint, coca should be neither destroyed nor completely legalized. Farming should be controlled by the state and by the coca farmers' unions.
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The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.
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Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you fear is impossible. Well and good. Can you therefore cease to fear it? Not here and now. And what then? If you must see ghosts, it is better not to disbelieve in them.
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There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.
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There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.
