"Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it."

-- Robert Payne

#Long Quotes #Bored Quotes #Empires Quotes

“I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.”
“Customer-centricity should be about delivering value for customers that will eventually create value for the company.”
“I love performing. It's a phenomenal getaway. If you want to really let out everything you feel, that's the time to do it.”
“Some men are deeply likable but have attitudes I don't like. Does that mean I should completely dismiss them? It's like saying: if someone votes Tory can you like them? And, yes, I can. I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways. We have a tendency to oversimplify things.”

Source : "Jo Brand: 'National treasure? I'd rather maintain a taint of national disgrace'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.
“These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played.”
“The sciences have sworn among themselves an inviolable partnership; it is almost impossible to separate them, for they would rather suffer than be torn apart; and if anyone persists in doing so, he gets for his trouble only imperfect and confused fragments. Yet they do not arrive all together, but they hold each other by the hand so that they follow one another in a natural order which it is dangerous to change, because they refuse to enter in any other way where they are called. ...”
“There's lots of incredible roles out there that I'd love to tackle, but there's a select group of actors I find myself gravitating towards, like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sean Penn or Daniel Day-Lewis - real transformational actors.”
“I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.”

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