Period Quotes
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I'm not an actor who is often asked to be in period things.
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The 1960s was a period when writers in the West began to be aware of the extraordinary eloquence and popular attraction of the Russian poets such as Yevtushenko and Voznesensky - oppositional figures who could draw crowds. The Russian poets recited from memory as a matter of course.
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I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself.
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We may be proud that England is the ancient country of Parliaments. With scarcely any intervening period, Parliaments have met constantly for 600 years, and there was something of a Parliament before the Conquest. England is the mother of Parliaments.
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Everybody knows about Peter Jackson, 'The Hobbit' movies and 'The Lord of the Rings' films being made in New Zealand, and to actually have been part of it for such a long period, to live there and to have friends that I will have for life because of that experience, is an amazing thing.
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People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment.
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If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.
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I would love to do a period piece - in the 18th or 17th century. To me, it would be such an incredible challenge because of the way people carried themselves. There are so many incredible stories within those centuries - just the language and the way they carried themselves and what they were going through.
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With period dramas, it's very easy to get excited because I love to do them.
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The BBC is very good at period drama - world-famous for getting the details right.
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I had to get healthy for a period in my life, so I learned a lot about food and diet.
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I've seen Congress do some remarkable things within a short period of time.
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I went through a really low period about 13 years ago, when all aspects of my career and everything went completely wrong.
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During the Depression years, I began to identify to some extent with the unemployed, the organization for the unemployed at that period.
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On our show, I must tell you, it was... the 60s was a period of time when everything was free love. People made love to each other. It was a very open life, you know?
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At no period of human culture have men understood the psychic mechanism involved in invention and technology. (p. 300)
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I believe in the British lion and I believe that the British character is lion-hearted, and I believe that it has not been lion-hearted in some of the post-War period, and I want it to get back to being lion hearted.
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For years I have made the point that progress in winding back economic slack is made not by high growth in any individual year, but by maintaining an expansion over a sustained period.
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The roles that have come into my life have taught me - and in that time period maybe I didn't even know it, but whatever came up or whatever it is that you have to express at that time, has benefitted me in a particular way.
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Beauty has never been absolute and immutable but has taken on different aspects depending on the historical period and the country
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After a breakup, it takes a couple weeks for the fog to settle, but it's always a period of self-priority and growth. Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.
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In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.
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I think I have a period drama face. That's the reason I've always gone back to the West End, because for me, that's where all the interesting roles have been.
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Audioslave was something that I felt had become a career decision. It became three albums over a period of years touring with a specific group of people.
