Anthony Hopkins Quotes

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I'm blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

Anthony Hopkins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: welsh
  • Birth: December 31, 1937

Topics

FreedomBlessedDownI CanPlay

Peter Brook's 'Midsummer Night's Dream,' I remember seeing. That was pretty early on. And suddenly, I realized how theatrical Shakespeare is, how alive, how wonderful it is when it's opened up by a great director and a great company.

Jeremy Irons

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Those with less of a sense of service to the nation never understand it when men and women of character step forward to look danger and adversity straight in the eye, refusing to blink, or give ground, even to their own deaths. The protected can't begin to understand the price paid so they and their families can sleep safe and free at night.

John F. Kelly

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We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically.

Robert Gottlieb

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What can I say about a world without Garry Shandling? This is where I need Garry. He would have something pithy, and there would be a laugh, and your heart would break at the same time. He changed my life.

Jeffrey Tambor

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From 12-year-old girls to 70-year-old matriarchs, I know hundreds of women who have some sort of body image issue. This is sad and seriously worrying, but it's true, and it's why I feel some kind of social responsibility to do what I can to show a variety of body types in fashion magazines.

Amanda de Cadenet

WomenSadResponsibilityFashion

Certain things do not effect me anymore, which is not always good. There is always commotion, but I notice that hardly anything affects me or puts me out of balance.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

GoodBalanceMeAlwaysOutAnything

Before comedy, I worked at a tech company, and before that, I worked on Wall Street. And, honestly, I've never really been sexually harassed.

Michelle Wolf

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I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.

Janis Ian

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In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.

Donna Tartt

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Technology is mostly a force for good, but it has its downsides, too. I want my students - and my readers - to be intelligently skeptical about technology and be informed about the good and the not-so-good parts.

Brian Kernighan

GoodTechnologyWantInformedForce

I get along so much better with fundamentalist Christians than I do with wishy-washy liberals, who want everyone to get along.

Penn Jillette

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I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

Sherwood Anderson

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