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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I think the mainstream gaming industry has a very narrow focus on the young male audience. There are plenty of other people out there who enjoy playing games, but if you walk into most game stores, there's nothing on the shelf for them. I mean, imagine if you could only buy cheeseburgers and nothing but cheeseburgers in every restaurant?
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To hold on to what you believe is just and right.
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The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.
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For all founders, going public is a momentous milestone that has to be experienced to be fully understood. It is the culmination of years of hard work and personal sacrifice.
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Great works - and I think Star Wars is a great work - are easily susceptible to multiple plausible interpretations. Some of them are pretty nutty, but the idea that we should see it as profoundly feminist, or as a deeply Christian tale, or as a Freudian exercise... I think all of those have some truth.
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Certainly, I'm excited by epic subjects. It doesn't particularly frighten me.
