Kenneth Branagh Quotes
I read the final Wallander novel, 'The Troubled Man,' not long after it was published.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.
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If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.
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I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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I'm very smart, and I have a great team of people around me investing my money. I'm not buying gold - yet.
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Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.
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I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.
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Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.
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When I was younger and first started watching MTV I loved watching TRL. I loved watching my favorite singers/bands perform.
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The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk of the town because of my peculiar way of catching a fly ball. They later named it the Vest-Pocket Catch.
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When something is troubling me, people know about it.
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I was on 'Search for Tomorrow' for about nine months, then 'Another World' for two years.
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I loved scary movies growing up.
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The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles and interests to check excesses and create a balance in our politics that would benefit 'we the people.' Gerrymandered districts and a hyped-up fight-night media offer a partial explanation of why we seem to have neither checks nor balances.
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Entertainment history is now the main source of supposedly historical knowledge for more and more people, but 'histo-tainment' is superficial and lacks all context.
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There is a plethora of topics to explore. I sometimes think I may never live long enough to explore all of the unique story lines I have either in my head or waiting in my computer file.
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I read the final Wallander novel, 'The Troubled Man,' not long after it was published.
