Kenneth Branagh Quotes

I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos.

Kenneth Branagh

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• I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.

  

  Pamela Anderson
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• I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.

  

  Gail Porter
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• Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.

  

  Ian Smith
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• I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique. There have been a lot of other authors who were in the military. There have been a few others who were pilots. There have certainly been a lot of other people who were in politics or served congressional staffs.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
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• When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.

  

  Naomi Klein
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• Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.

  

  Naftali Bennett
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• I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packed lunches so healthful that they had no takers in the grand swap-fest of the lunchroom.

  

  Sally Mann
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• From the very early days of seeing patients, I noticed that many of them seemed to be concerned with issues of their mortality, and so the philosophy training I had taken began to seem rather important to me.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
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• I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Time
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• I always liked parties. You meet people; you can have fun.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
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• One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Centre
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• I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

  

  Jackson Pollock
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• We absolutely have to change the status quo in Washington.

  

  Jack Kingston
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• I don't see Hollywood as the big enemy, because this is where the money is, and not all of the companies are doing studio movies. I'm not tempted to sell out. If I'm going to become well known, I want it to be for something I'm proud of.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
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• Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires?

  

  J. M. Coetzee
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• There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
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• And their eyes are all askingAre you in or are you out?And I think, oh manWhat is this about?Tonight you can't put meUp on any shelfCuz I came here aloneAnd I'm gonna leave by myself.

  

  Ani DiFranco
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• Freedom begins between the ears.

  

  Edward Abbey
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• Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl.

  

  Ken Burns

• You start with an idea but then so many things can happen.

  

  Christian Marclay

• If I'm a genre writer, I'm at the edge. In the end, they do work like genre fiction. You have a hero, there's a love interest, there's always a chase, there's fighting of some kind. You don't have to do that in a novel. But you do in a genre novel.

  

  Alan Furst
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• The more closely he has observed the tugboat, the more deeply he has been stirred by it, and the more eagerly and vividly he will strive to recreate it, in building, in drawing, in words.

  

  Caroline Pratt
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• I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos.

  

  Kenneth Branagh