Kenneth Branagh Quotes
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If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
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I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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I'm mostly vegetarian.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.
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In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
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When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.
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The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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Politicians know that structural reforms - to increase competition, foster innovation, and drive institutional change - are the way to tackle structural impediments to growth. But they know that while the pain from reform is immediate, gains are typically delayed and their beneficiaries uncertain.
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A lot of times, for videogames, you get almost no time to prepare with a script. You've got a director that's going line for line, filling you in on what's happening, and some games are even less than that.
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The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.
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Presidents always want to do nice, noble, long-run things, and Congress is less keen to do so. We've seen that throughout the history of this country.
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I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.
