Billy Joe Saunders Quotes
My trainer Jimmy Tibbs and my promoter Frank Warren told me that I had to be patient and get the jab going.
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I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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I hadn't thought that women were particularly dangerous golfers. Could that be the reason that the Augusta National Golf club refuses to take down its 'No Women Allowed' sign?
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To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
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Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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I'm not a great band member; I'm more of a band leader.
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My friends in college, several of whom are still my closest companions, would tell you that I was almost obsessed with becoming - fixated on creating - the future that I envisioned for myself: one of expanding to know my fullest self, which I have in no way achieved.
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Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than you would have imagined.
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Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
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In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.
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I think cameras ought to be everywhere the reporters are allowed to go. I think, furthermore, reporters and cameras ought to be everywhere that the Constitution says the public can go.
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The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.
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You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right - is that agnosticism asserts not only that he himself didn't know if there was a God or not, but that nobody could know.
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You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.
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In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.
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Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.
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My trainer Jimmy Tibbs and my promoter Frank Warren told me that I had to be patient and get the jab going.
