Kenneth Branagh Quotes
To look out of a car in Scania, you see a painting on the horizontal - one windmill, one tiny farmhouse, acres of beet or grass.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
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I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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When I admitted I needed to grow old as a woman, it was a relief.
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I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.
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I came into the world at the same time as the auto, if you will.
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Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can't play cricket without any rules.
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When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.
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I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are not mutually exclusive things.
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A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.
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It's difficult to say what attracts one person to another. It's always a combination, isn't it? I've always found people interesting because of the way they think, and a sense of humour is irresistible.
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I actually have a peculiar feminism that does not involve the idea that women shouldn't be sexy. Female characters written in comics have always been pretty damned sexy, and used their sexuality. And I don't have any problem with that.
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It's always 'busy' with four children; it's chaos.
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Belief is a luxury – only those who have real knowledge have a right to believe; otherwise belief is merely plausible opinion.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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I love the way painting is so full of illusionistic possibilities.
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To look out of a car in Scania, you see a painting on the horizontal - one windmill, one tiny farmhouse, acres of beet or grass.
