Evel Knievel Quotes
I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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It's inspiring for me to know that you've got to step up your game.
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And tiny vessels oozed into your neck And formed the bruises That you said you didn't want to fade But they did and so did I that day
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The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.
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When I worked with Bill Nighy on 'Wrath of the Titans,' he said to me, 'There's one thing you can promise me, and that's never, ever, ever read your reviews.'
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The fact that there's people out there that care about what I'm eating for breakfast or care about a tweet that I posted in 2012 that they pulled up because they were searching on my Twitter and things like that - it's hard to understand, because it's just me, and I just think, 'What's so interesting about me?'
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I'm a huge reader... I'm a big book nerd. I go through, like, two books a week.
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But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.
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It's not a bad idea to have gossip and talking points in athletics.
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I'm not ashamed to be gay.
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I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.
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I was in Liverpool city center and I thought I broke one of my toes, just by jumping on buses. I put my arm in the door on the outside, and the bus just drives away with me naked.
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We'll do a crazy video of a great song that people can actually dance to.
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'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' I've used it to demonstrate racial attitudes to people who I thought needed a better understanding of all human beings. Malcolm was not a racist. He was not looking for revenge. He realized that kindness and goodness did not come from any one kind of person.
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I'd really like to work with Johnny Depp: he seems like a really cool guy; he can do a lot of different things.
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When I was 8, my dad asked me if I wanted to audition, just for fun. I did just a little short film, and I liked it. I just kept doing it, and then I started getting bigger auditions for bigger roles.
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Whoever portrays me on screen need not necessarily be a look alike. Any hero could play my part.
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I've always been a fan of Five For Fighting's song 'Superman.' It's like an anthem, and I love it.
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Clearly, there's a real onus on you to do something correctly when everybody, at least in the United States, had a really clear, specific idea of what this guy looked like - and even more so, what he looked like as Clark Kent and as Superman. You have this whole vast audience of people who would be acutely aware of any deviation whatsoever and probably holding you to a slightly higher standard as a result.
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I have a sense of destiny because of my mother, who was an extraordinary person but a terrible candidate for mother. She was like the god Cronus, who gave birth to his children in the morning and then ate them at night.
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I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.
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I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never.
