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" I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived. "

Richard Attenborough

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" I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism. "

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" At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too. "

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" There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay. "

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" My main aim in 'Gandhi' was to project him as the vanguard of non-violence. Nowhere in the world has a movement of non-cooperation sans violence received so much support from masses as Gandhi's movement in India did. He was, to a great extent, responsible for freeing his nation from the British Raj. "

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" I very, very, very rarely lose my temper. I do get cross sometimes when encountering something that I feel is improper, that I feel is lacking in justice and equity, and this all sounds very pompous and over the top - but these are the things that really upset me: intolerance, prejudice etc. I suppose in more mundane matters, I'm impatient. "

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" I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject. "

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

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" Throughout my life, I always remember that consideration of people who were less fortunate than we. We lived in an atmosphere of awareness, and we certainly did not live a life whereby we ignored, or felt that we could ignore, that which was in evidence around us. "

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" What actually happened with 'Miracle' was that someone saw me in 'Jurassic Park' and said, 'We want someone with a white beard - how about him?' I've got a round face, white hair, a white beard. I can wear half-moon glasses and waddle a little, cope with a cane, raise my hat. "

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" I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life. "

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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. "

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" I adore my family; they are my joy. However, I am committed to my work. If, on a Saturday morning when I was ostensibly going to be with the children, and something arose at RADA or at UNICEF or at the orphanage or whatever, I would allow the other pressures to take precedent. "

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

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" I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant - that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, an argument and so on - and I can't do that, and I'm not in that bracket at all. "

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" I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view. "

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" If I were able to write, I probably would. But movies have given me a part of my life where I can express feelings and bring convictions to an audience as if I could write. So I made 'Gandhi' about human relations, prejudice and the empire. In 'Cry Freedom' I expressed my horror and disgust about apartheid. "

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