Jeremy Renner Quotes
I've got to be active in life, and it's the same when I'm doing stunts in a movie: I'll do anything.
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
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Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.
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Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relater or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.
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Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
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I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
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I've got to be active in life, and it's the same when I'm doing stunts in a movie: I'll do anything.
