Kenneth Branagh Quotes
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.
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I'm a slow starter.
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Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.
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I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.
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Twenty or 30 years from now, I'm going to be on a beach in Jamaica.
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Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
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When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.
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There's something about sitting face-to-face with an attorney in an office that enables people to come to grips with the very idea of divorce - or to reconsider the idea. Like a number of my colleagues - not all - I offer that preliminary consultation for free.
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Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
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I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.
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Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
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Management must manage!
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I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
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I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing. I had my first little acoustic when I was six. But I started being in bands when I was 13.
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Modern culture is a tremendous force.
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I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.
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Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.
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I am happy that America continues to be, for many, a land of dreams. Dreams which lead to action, to participation, to commitment. Dreams which awaken what is deepest and truest in the life of a people.
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I liked the fact that 'My Week With Marilyn' wasn't a biopic.
