Charles Sturridge Quotes
I believe in fairy tales. They are the basis of all our performance of storytelling and film-making - when we twist the real events of the world into something that offers us hope - and I believe in that.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.
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I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.
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The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to the sport is that of painter, Thomas Eakins.
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Give Me a Turkish Army. I will Conquer world.
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I believe in fairy tales. They are the basis of all our performance of storytelling and film-making - when we twist the real events of the world into something that offers us hope - and I believe in that.
