Kenneth Branagh Quotes
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?
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Especially if you're endeavouring daily to write your own books, you read with a degree of - well, it's hard to forget you're a writer when you're reading.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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I simply can't wear an outfit if I don't feel that is right for me.
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The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology.
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I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.
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It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.
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My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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I'm an iPod person.
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It's a rare and special feeling to ride a racehorse.
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I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure.
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
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Anything that catches my ear, I'm into. Things that are different, that change what you're listening to.
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All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.
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One of my favorite - well, my favorite, favorite, absolute favorite event to go to is Alfre Woodard has a party that I call the blacktress party. It's, like, black actresses that either have been nominated for an Oscar or should have been, and it sort of is just a night where we all get in a room and we get to celebrate each other.
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Wouldn't it be great if the technology we used to take care of ourselves was as good as the technology we use to make money?
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Filling life exceedingly is called ominous.
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I never used an outline until I started "The Bourne Legacy" project for which I was required to write an outline. To be honest, I thought I'd hate the idea, assuming that if I'd thought of all the ideas at the outset I'd have to incentive to actually write the book, because for me part of the joy of writing are the surprises you come upon as the book takes shape. But something curious and exciting happened. As I wrote the outline, some sections would be very detailed, others quite sketchy, so that whole portions of the book would be covered by one line, such as "Bourne is chased by Khan through Budapest," which when I wrote the novel turned out to be 40-50 pages! Now I'll never write a novel without first doing an outline. Looking back on it, I used to get bogged down in extraneous characters and situations, especially during the first 100 pages (which I find the most difficult to write) that I would later have to scrap, wasting time and energy, and frustrating me. Now that never happens.
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Certainly, I'm excited by epic subjects. It doesn't particularly frighten me.
