Charles Dance Quotes
I love the Restoration. It's a bit like coming out of the John Major era into the optimism of Tony Blair.
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I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
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I always put my boxing first.
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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Getting straight A's for having lots of tests is not the same as getting A's on the tests. Weighing a malnourished dog every day doesn't make him any better.
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I bought the rights to this book, 'The Ploughmen,' by a Montana writer named Kim Zupan, and I've written the screenplay, and I really feel pretty strong about it. It's really hauntingly beautiful. It's got some suspense and great drama, but it's a real character thing.
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I was swept by the narrative structure of film... you can create a world, you can destroy it, you can do what you want with it and serve it to people just the way you like.
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The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.
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I shaved the back of my head once and did the asymmetrical hair.
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How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They said that they couldn't do it; it would destroy them. I said they had to do it. And I finally got support from Hoffman on it.
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Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.
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One of my top tips for aspiring entrepreneurs: Tell everyone you know about your idea. This runs contrary to the instinct that most people have, because they're afraid someone is going to 'steal my ideal.' Ideas alone are worth very little; it's in the execution and market feedback that companies are made.
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The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.
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Maybe someone will step up, but they don't have anyone right now.
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Sir Rosevelt is a little more of a persona, and we dress up, three-piece Tom Ford suits, and it's a little more refined, visually.
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If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.
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There will be a lot of competitive and strong companies coming here and even though Kosovo is a small country that undoubtedly has a lot to offer to global trade; one of our main interests is to expose it to the world market.
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…the simple-minded positivism that believes it has found a firm ground of certainty if it only excludes all mental phenomena from consideration and holds fast to observable facts.
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Actually, the books were never a planned career path.
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You can't really do a big character in an action film; you're already suspending your disbelief in the action, then to suspend your disbelief in the character is too much.
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Her parents, Austin Taylor and Kathleen Taylor, were big deals in Vancouver - they were civic leaders, and he raced horses in the Kentucky Derby - and my mother grew up a debutante. And when she and my dad were married, there were about a thousand guests at that reception.
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I want to interpret the natural world and our links to it. It's driven by the belief of many world-class scientists that we're in the midst of an extinction crisis... This time it's us that's doing it.
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Part of me wanted something bloody and really fun.
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I love the Restoration. It's a bit like coming out of the John Major era into the optimism of Tony Blair.
