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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I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!
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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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We need to take the country in the right direction, whether it is around administrative policy decisions or legislative changes or ensuring the macroeconomic stability.
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Towards the end of your life you have something like a pain schedule to fill out - a long schedule like a federal document, only it's your pain schedule. Endless categories. First, physical causes - like arthritis, gallstones, menstrual cramps. New category, injured vanity, betrayal, swindle, injustice. But the hardest items of all have to do with love. The question then is: So why does everybody persist? If love cuts them up so much.
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If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota.
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I feel great. I had a triple bypass in 1976 and a quadruple bypass in 1984.
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I think all things are political... How women are portrayed - that's a big thing for me. What is this role trying to say about women? Is this woman weak or victimised, and, if so, do we get to understand why?
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I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.
