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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I love the idea that you would wear vintage stuff with new stuff and wear stuff that's 5 years old.
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Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace.
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Domestic violence refers to acts of violence (physical, sexual, emotional and psychological) that occur between people who have, or have had, an intimate relationship. It tends to involve an ongoing pattern of behaviour aimed at controlling a partner through fear.
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Fear is not an emotion, it is a disease. It spreads from the leader to his followers and vice-versa. Nothing has killed more men in war than fear. What should a warrior fear? Death? But death is what everyone achieves ultimately. Is it wounds that you fear? What is more important? A pint of your blood or the nectar of victory? Think. Thinking will clear such doubts.
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There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.
