Jim Broadbent Quotes

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

Jim Broadbent

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 24, 1949

Topics

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I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens.

Meg Rosoff

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The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

Stanislav Grof

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We all have those dreams of going back in time and seeing what it was like when our parents were younger.

Simon Helberg

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I don't love plays. I don't love doing the same thing, every night, for 100 nights in a row.

Rupert Friend

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When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.

Masaharu Morimoto

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A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.

Michael Winner

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We have a lot of pressures on children very young. We have ambition. We over-schedule our children. We want them to have soccer lessons and violin lessons... I think children need to have at least an hour of fun a day.

Julia Cameron

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A lot of my pieces are about easy seductiveness and accessibility in terms of showing skin.

Joseph Altuzarra

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You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.

Joseph Conrad

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I go out on publicity tours for my books, and, you know, Latinos, they bring everybody in the family to everything, even little kids. So I always ask the kids, 'Who wants to be the first Latino President?' It used to be no hands went up, or maybe one or two. Now, with Obama, many of the little hands go up. It will happen in my lifetime.

Jorge Ramos

FamilyHandsYouGoKnowNow

When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that 'civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.' The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

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My mother had a very open-minded philosophy about having children: that they should be free to develop in their own way.

Annabelle Wallis

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