Kenneth Branagh Quotes
I did not expect to be allowed to be an actor, to be allowed to eventually direct things.
Kenneth Branagh
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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Earl Wilson
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I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
Maggie Smith
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Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God. He gave them moral activity. But the Age, the World, Humanity, must give them the means to exercise this moral activity, must give them intellectual cultivation, spheres of action.
Florence Nightingale
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Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.
Dale Carnegie
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Now don't you dare call me normal. I was never a Pollyanna. There was always a lot of Theodora in me.
Irene Dunne
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Lo que no quiero, al arrojarlo de mis manos, va a caer al alcance de mis manos.
Antonio Porchia
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What is enthusiasm but a passionate belief in what seems to be a high and holy aim - an unselfish devotion to some noble cause - a consecration of heart and mind and soul to the attainment of a great object?
Orison Swett Marden
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In the first two episodes, before she becomes Queen, I could be a lot freer with my emotions, but as the series goes on, she develops an armour in order to cope with her circumstances. She has to be a sphinx, which must be so hard. Imagine never being able to shout, 'Shut up,' or cry, even in front of your own family.
Claire Foy
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
Vin Diesel
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Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?
Honore de Balzac
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Self-absorption is always a temptation to young people, and if their religion is of a sort to add to this self-absorption, I feel that it is a serious mistake. If I had my way, the whole subject of feelings and emotions in the religious life would be absolutely ignored. Feelings there will be, doubtless, but they must not be in the least depended on, nor in any sense taken as the test or gauge of one's religion. They ought to be left out of the calculation entirely. You may feel good or you may feel bad, but neither the good feeling nor the bad feeling affects the real thing.
Hannah Whitall Smith
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I did not expect to be allowed to be an actor, to be allowed to eventually direct things.
Kenneth Branagh