Dwayne Johnson Quotes
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'The Waltons' was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off from family and friends. It nurtured me back to a sense of family and who I am. It was a transforming experience.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person.
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Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
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In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.
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I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.
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I dropped the 'Bundy' with my country music because I wanted it to be two separate things: There's me as a songwriter and a country singer, and there's me as a Broadway performer.
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We had a saying at Blockbuster: 'If you don't come in on Saturday, don't bother coming in on Sunday.' We worked hard.
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I have big hands – I wear either a XXXL or XXL glove. I have a 6-8 wingspan on a 5-11 body – I can dunk. My wingspan allows me to do a lot of things that other people at my height might not be able to do.
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Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.
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I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.
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I've been told by doctors and surgeons that I have the energy of ten men who have normal jobs.
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Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
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p. 36
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If there is an amateur reader still left in the world - or anybody who just reads and runs - I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children.
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There is a difference between not understanding and being willfully obtuse.
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That boy from the music shop—he might be everything you believe he is. But in the eyes of our society, he is a convicted criminal. He has nothing to lose. He is stuck where he is. On the bottom. While you are walking away from the greatest opportunity a girl can have. To win. To become independent. To achieve international fame and choose the life you desire.
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Closeness to animals creates the desire to understand them, and not just a little piece of them, but the whole animal. It makes us wonder what goes on in their heads even though we fully realize that the answer can only be approximated.
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Acting was just something that came really naturally to me, and it was just something that I knew how to do.
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How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives!
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When you grow up with a name like Brad Thor, people expect you to be 6-foot-4 and a pile of muscles.
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Working out anchors my day.
