Kenneth Branagh Quotes
The director needs to be in command on set because everything crumbles if that's not the case.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.
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For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.
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When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate effort to ignore a lot of the 'typically Mexican landscape' around me - banana and citrus groves, roses and carnations, burros and toros - because they did not exist in Mexico in the 15th century, the time of my book.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
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The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
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Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.
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The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.
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You have to get out of your comfort zone in order to grow. And as an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged. And unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles.
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I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.
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Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.
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Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.
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Both parents’ rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents.
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Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people we most despise.
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The only valid rule about the proper length of a statement is that it achieve its purpose effectively.
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My grandma blows my mind. To me, she exemplifies what a loving, accepting Christian is.
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Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
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Daredevil was known as 'The Man Without Fear,' and I just thought, 'Well, I don't think that's very interesting.' I don't think it's very interesting to watch someone who's incapable of feeling fear. It also removes from the palate my favorite character attribute, which is courage. If you're not afraid, you can't exercise courage.
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The system did not want me to make 'Go.' And I sort of stood up to the system and made the movie I wanted to make, and the fact that I did that and I'm proud of the movie means I'm really proud of myself when I look back on that.
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There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.
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Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied."
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The director needs to be in command on set because everything crumbles if that's not the case.
