Kenneth Branagh Quotes
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He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
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I still have a young attitude.
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
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He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
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I have hair that looks like you could just take it off and plug a new style on.
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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
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I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.
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Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?
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I like the feeling of not knowing where to look when you are only performing for one person or watching someone practice. It creates this kind of a strange in-between, which can be mirrored in the feeling of making a painting.
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The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us.
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The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best governed which is governed the least.
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The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.
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Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable-and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.
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I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.
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I have entered on an enterprise which is without precedent, and will have no imitator. I propose to show my fellows a man as nature made him, and this man shall be myself.
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We cannot afford to lose any more people as a result of hatred.
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I like to work and there's no movies for actors, period, especially black actors. When white actors are like, 'Man, there's no work out there,' then black actors are like, 'Are you kidding me?'
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One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic.
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Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding out what those things mean, why they did those things and seeing how I fit into them.
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If you can't taste an ingredient, you have to ask yourself why it is there.
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There's nothing more fun than putting on an old costume and jewelry and being in a house that's decorated from the '20s or '30s or whatever.
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I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.
