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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The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
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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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I was never the girl in high school who had a boyfriend for years. My longest relationship has been 18 months. I've thought maybe I'm really superficial and unable to have a relationship. What I've found is that people are attracted by my independence, and then they try to squelch it.
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I found that gloss paint suited me entirely, and its qualities still intrigue me. It's viscous and fluid and feels like a pool. It's highly reflective, which means there are layers of looking. You look at the picture, and you look at the surface, then you look at the reflection in the surface behind you, then you look at yourself.
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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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What I do believe in is the moral code of Christianity.
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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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I've been married a couple of times and survived!
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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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I work more than people realize. It doesn't mean you always see the project. Look at how many stations we have. I did a couple films in Australia. I like the movies.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human rights violations perpetrated by the government there.
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Comscore, Nielsen, MediaMetrix and Quantcast studies all show women are the driving force of the most important net trend of the decade, the social web.
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The director needs to be in command on set because everything crumbles if that's not the case.
