Jens Martin Skibsted Quotes
Leisure activities such as contemplation, going for a stroll or a bike ride boost our overall health, wellbeing, and creativity.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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I always regret leaving home if I don't get at least four or five surfs in the week before I leave. I try to be in the water as much as possible before leaving, and it's the one thing I miss massively.
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I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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I love Vanna White as much as the next guy.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I never thought the outcome would be so good which I think it was! The entire role was a challenge. I was to be this strange yet sexy thing which was challenging!
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When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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If we have the intent to use the military only when needed, then that also becomes, then, therefore, a credible deterrent.
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I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were really there - all that fun stuff stayed in the show, and I think that's why everybody remembers it so fondly because that just doesn't happen anymore on television.
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We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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I've become very, very liberal as far as war is concerned. It's just too terrible. I've been to wars and I've seen what happens. I know what it is to be hurt, and it's nothing compared to these guys. To be blind for the rest of your life. To have prosthetic limbs.
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I'll be totally honest in that I feel tremendously lucky that I am offered incredible jobs all the time to direct, but the problem that I have just personally is that there are only so many years in my life to dedicate to certain projects.
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Their thinking has a different aim: To create out of their work symbols for their own time, symbols that belong on the altars of a future spiritual religion, symbols behind which the technical heritage cannot be seen. Scorn and stupidity will be like roses in their path.
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I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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I know how hard it is to send two kids to college when you ain't got nothing. I know people may not think of me in that way, but this business gives you ups and downs.
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Leisure activities such as contemplation, going for a stroll or a bike ride boost our overall health, wellbeing, and creativity.
