"In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained……" — Tom Hooper
"In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time."
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Tom Hooper
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44 Quotes by Tom Hooper
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The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were…
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Thank you to my wonderful actors, the triangle of man-love which is Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and me.
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Sometimes your body language is enough for an actor to know that you're not happy. And you don't really need…
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I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.
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A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.
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I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.
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Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this…
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Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.
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American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.
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American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age,…
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I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.
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I don't even like football.
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More Aggressor Quotes
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The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights.…
— Ronald Reagan
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For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength-and strength alone.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity;…
— Thomas Aquinas
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So great are the psychological restistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war…
— Harold Lasswell
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Allah is on our side. That is why we will beat the aggressor.
— Saddam Hussein
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With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars…
— Howard Zinn
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I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that,…
— Dominic Monaghan
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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
— Mahmoud Darwish
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And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world.…
— Mark Twain
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While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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