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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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 rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.
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Neither creator nor critic can make himself universal by barely taking thought about it. He is what he lives. The measure of the creator is the amount of life he puts Into his work. The measure of the critic is the amount of life he finds there.
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You are very fortunate to be assigned to duty at Fortress Monroe on Chesapeake Bay; it is just the season for soft shelled crabs, and hog fish have just come in, and they are the most delicious panfish you ever ate.
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For some the wind can fleshly blow, for some the sunlight fade at ease, but we, made partners in our dread, hear but the grating of the keys, and heavy-booted soldiers' tread. As if for early mass, we rose and each day walked the wilderness, trudging through silent street and square, to congregate, less live than dead.
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'No' is a dynamic that you've got to master before you can ever master 'yes.'
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You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.
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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.
