Joe Carnahan Quotes
It's like I don't have any one genre, I guess. I think you'd be hard-pressed to get me into a rom-com, but who knows?
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In 2012, I was over the moon to be there, especially as it was our home Olympics. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I just wanted to take everything in.
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I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night.
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If you don't feel like you're ready to get your license - just because people are putting pressure on you, don't feel like you have to rush into something. Take your time, really feel confident and be ready. It doesn't matter what other people say, do what's best for you and makes you feel safe.
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I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations.
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I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.
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I'd like to think, if I was ever in a fight, I'd win, although I'd probably run in the opposite direction.
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And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.
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I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
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I would really like to do a straight action movie that's hardcore - heavy action, like 'The Expendables' or 'Fast Five.'
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Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009.
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Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
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If you told me I could only do one thing, I would choose live concerts.
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Bringing together the unique expertise of researchers from both NYU and the Technion will hopefully enable us to overcome some of the most difficult challenges in treating cancer patients.
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Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.
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It was really unusual to go from being in university for four years to all of a sudden acting every day. I'd never been able to do it exclusively like that. It was always sort of like my secret thing that I did privately.
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You don't want to have to come into work on Monday already apologizing. I try to save my apologies for what I've done later in the week.
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For me, it's important to build good partnerships rather than score centuries. Once, you have those partnerships, you will also get centuries.
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Worry is an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.
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There have been many times when you spend a number of months and the finished product is not what you wanted to see. And 'Batman Begins' was what I wanted to see.
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To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.
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I thought Bolt was amazing, I mean, beating the world record and slowing down at the end, how galling has that got the for the other athletes? I never managed to do anything in 9.69 seconds, it took me ten seconds to watch him do that.
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A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time.
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It's like I don't have any one genre, I guess. I think you'd be hard-pressed to get me into a rom-com, but who knows?
