Kenneth Cranham Quotes
The only acting I knew when I was a boy came from Lochgelly. With a double bill, people would live their lives in the cinema. You would even see babies being breastfed in the audience.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
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You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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My customers are successful workingwomen.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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I think all groups who don't fit in clearly with Western music have to think, 'How can I expand my market? Where else can I perform?'
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I'm an absolute fan of Angela Bassett. I think she's a great, great actress. In the biopics, she is so moving. She's very rare. It's something that doesn't happen that much, to see an actress inventing a new way of showing 'woman' onscreen, and a new way of being beautiful.
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They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.
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I am not a sentimental or superstitious person, so I don't have any pre-performance rituals. I am a very practical woman. After a performance I am always hopeful that I will lure someone home for a ritual of a more personal nature.
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The only acting I knew when I was a boy came from Lochgelly. With a double bill, people would live their lives in the cinema. You would even see babies being breastfed in the audience.
