Kenneth Clarke Quotes
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I like Dolce & Gabbana's fragrance Light Blue - it's my everyday perfume.
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The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
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The climate has been changing since there was a climate.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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I specifically had my son wear a Browns jersey on the streets of Pittsburgh while we were there.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.
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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.
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I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.
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I'm focused on staying as healthy as I can so I can work more.
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I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.
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I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
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My parents were hippies. I'm the eldest of eight children.
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Yeah, I definitely want to find that right person and fall in love and have kids someday.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.
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I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.
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The last page of [Lincoln in the Bardo] - without giving too much away - involves somebody entering somebody else. Not in a sexual way. But it says one of the simplest things you could ever say, which is that we must try and be inside each other. We must have some kind of feeling for each other and enter into each other's experience.
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I do research. I do emotional sort of Method work. Somehow it’s a huge mishmash of things that becomes my own acting process and my own way of navigating through something. But ultimately the desire is to be honest, and for that truth to bleed through into your work and onto the screen.
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Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.
