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.
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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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There's this open question of what Google is going to be a decade or more from now. Google X isn't the only answer to that question, but it was built as a place to do some of the exploration to find some great new problems for Google to tackle.
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All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall, And the silence ripeness, And the ripeness all.
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I like to think of hope as a fact and something that wins out always. Whether you're hopeful or not, actually, you do get through what you're in the middle of. When you're in it, you don't feel like that's possible. But time and time again, we're proven wrong.
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I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.
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When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je'Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.
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I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.
