Kenneth Clarke Quotes
The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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Mike D'Antoni was a cool coach, but he was just a bad person. He can coach. He was just mean for no reason.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the greatest scene partners, and I'm such a lucky guy.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.
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President Obama was never going repeal Obamacare - he was not going to be brought to his knees with the threat of a government shutdown.
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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One of the things that's different about London and the English market is that theater and film and television are all based in London. It's not quite the same as in the States where if the playwright here wants a successful TV or film career, they're whisked away by Hollywood.
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I wish sometimes that I could be Daniel Day-Lewis and say, 'You know what? If you want me to do this, I'm going to need a year to prepare myself.' But if I do that, they'll say, 'Thank you very much,' and they'll take someone else.
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Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.
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I have always wanted to become a musician and a singer.
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Everything doesn't have to be perfect, I've realised. You can learn as you go.
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The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.
