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“Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I feel this is a family here, so kinda regardless of whatever happens in your life, you always can come home to the Grand Ole Opry, thank God.”
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“The policy that received more attention particularly in the past decade and a half or so has been the US cocaine policy, the differential treatment of crack versus powder cocaine and question is how my research impacted my view on policy. Clearly that policy is not based on the weight of the scientific evidence. That is when the policy was implemented, the concern about crack cocaine was so great that something had to be done and congress acted in the only way they knew how, they passed policy and that's what a responsible society should do.”
Source : Source: bigthink.com
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“I like playing Vernon Dursley in 'Harry Potter,' because that gives me a license to be horrible to kids. I hate the odious business of sucking up to the public.”
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“I think we all have had better days in competition.”
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“It's strange that in an age when we pride ourselves on our independence of thought we meekly submit without further question to the declaration of a clearly unbalanced nineteenth century philosopher that God is dead! That's cheeky, of course - and one rarely comes away from reading Nietzsche without learning something new and significant. He's certainly FAR more unsettling for faith than any contemporary atheist I know of.”
Source : "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014. 
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“I've had people come up to me in the past and say they enjoyed whatever show I've been in.”
Source : "Hugh Bonneville: escape from Downton" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2010.
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“Do not say before hand what you are going to do; for if you fail, you will be laughed at.”
Source : As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, i. 78,
