Kenneth Cranham Quotes
Buying a particular vintage because everyone tips it and then waiting for it to mature is like gambling. The thrill is in placing the bet. Once the race is run or the match is played, you'll either win or lose. Until that happens, you're caught in this wonderful, agonising sense of expectation.
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'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.
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Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
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Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.
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My dream was always to win in the Olympic Games, but I never set that next goal, and I have realised now I need to set another goal.
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I would say 'American Werewolf in London' is like an unconventional buddy movie: even if the buddy dies 20 minutes in, he still remains throughout the picture, and their partnership is one of the best things in the movie.
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I've decided I am going to start loving my backside because I don't know anyone who does that.
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I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.
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I think America is on the right track.
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Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
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You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform.
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But I've never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful.
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I spend all my time trying to avoid the spotlight.
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If a warrior is not unattached to life and death, he will be of no use whatsoever. The saying that 'All abilities come from one mind' sounds as though it has to do with sentient matters, but it is in fact a matter of being unattached to life and death. With such non-attachment one can accomplish any feat.
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The sweet mellifluous milking of the cow.
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Mother or Murderer, you havegiven or taken life - Now all is one!
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We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
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Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially.
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Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide.
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A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
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I remember that at the beginning of the month, the kind of menus my mom and father would prepare for us would have fish, chicken. But at the end of the month - because my father would be waiting for paycheck - the refrigerator would get empty. I remember that without a lot of food left, some of the best meals happened right there.
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Buying a particular vintage because everyone tips it and then waiting for it to mature is like gambling. The thrill is in placing the bet. Once the race is run or the match is played, you'll either win or lose. Until that happens, you're caught in this wonderful, agonising sense of expectation.
