Rutger Hauer Quotes
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When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.
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Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
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My parents wouldn't have sent me out into the world with wool over my eyes. You have to be aware, or you'll be swallowed.
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I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
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Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people.
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I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.
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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
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There's a lionfish cookbook put out by the Reef Environmental Educational Foundation, and it tells you how to catch them, how to clean them.
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The emotion is the execution of a very complex program of actions. Some actions that are actually movements, like movement that you can do, change your face for example, in fear, or movements that are internal, that happen in your heart or in your gut, and movements that are actually not muscular movements, but rather, releases of molecules.
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Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts a lot of money into it, sometimes movies can go unwatched or unnoticed.
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You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don't want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?'
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Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say, Laura Bush had that much effect on the Bush administration. She certainly, you know, seems to be a nice person who I think the public likes. But I can't really put my finger on any huge impact she's had.
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I disagree with the concept that somehow or another we're going to pack up 10, to 12, to 15 million people and ship them back to the country of origin. That's not going to happen.
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I make more movies than I see.