Kenneth Clarke Quotes
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.
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We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often with the best of intentions, has tried put a personal stamp on the character, whether it be to try and make him more current, or cool, or have a broader appeal, etc.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.
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No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.
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Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.
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David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
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It's nice to see that people in Middle America are really affected.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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I love doing different things where, for a little while, I can focus on standup then sketch writing, then performing, then directing a video. That, to me, is stimulating.
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
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Young people must feel that they can be real actors in our economy and be creative and be imaginative and be innovative.
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I have some realistic humility which comes from my first career as a writer. I wrote for other people for ten years. I saw some incredible egos not based on any reality. They were great when they were on top and awful when they weren't. I learned a lot about how to treat people.
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I don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics.
