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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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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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
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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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A short story collection can be as exciting as a novel. It is a real complete experience, like when you listen to a real good recording, a Beatles record, and there are so many good songs.
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It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.
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We all, as parents, are laughing at ourselves and helicopter parenting and saying, 'This isn't the way we were parented; we were allowed to run free.' When I talk to my friends, we are all fascinated by what we are doing, but we can't seem to stop ourselves.
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The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.
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I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.
