Kenneth Branagh Quotes
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I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit... weird.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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I dug up some old John Buscema 'Conan' comics. Man, when Alfredo Alcala was inking, that was some of the most beautiful black and white comic art ever published. The stories are good, too, though early '70s comics based on Conan is a festival of sexist, racist stereotypes.
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I don't think I tell stories of tragedy. I think I tell stories of love. Even though you're full of tears, I hope that you leave the theatre with your heart feeling like it's going to explode out of your chest. And yes, you've been through the tragedy, but it's ultimately hope that I think you're left with.
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I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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I'm definitely inspired by old hip-hop.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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It's been so difficult to watch people criticize me and my intentions.
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There are few restrictions on your life with asthma, as long as you take care of yourself.
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The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.
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Most people are motivated by the economy. And if you've lost your job, lost your mortgage, lost your 401(k), you're angry. And if your brother-in-law has lost one of those you're angry still. And when you're angry you take it out on people who are in office. Which is natural.
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
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I like criticism. It makes you strong.
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The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
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I did 'Love's Labour's Lost' in the theater and found it to be riotously funny.
