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"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."

"The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference."

"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."

"Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants."
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"I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done."

"And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted."

"Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique."

"If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean."

"David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands."

"Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up."

"And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by."
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