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 feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate.
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The best revolutions are unplanned, and the most democratic are leaderless.
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I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
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Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.
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There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.
