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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I always play what I call The Girl. The nice straight character. Sincere. Usually the victim. I'm put upon. I suffer.
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You know, I wanted to get married, and so I - but I, you know, I realize no matter what you want, it's kind of a fantasy.
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Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it's just different.
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It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things.
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I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.
