Scott Adkins Quotes
You've got to be a certain type of person to be a professional fighter. I prefer to do it for pretend.
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The march of the human mind is slow.
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The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
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Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.
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That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.
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Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?
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I suppose I could have sat back and pitied myself. For a time I wondered if I'd ever be able to go on to a stage and perform again. After a couple of weeks I began to feel I could fight my way back to health if I put my mind to it. I thought to myself: 'Pity never did anybody any good. Go on. Patsy, show 'em what you can do'
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Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
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When I first met my husband, I needed that helping hand to take the reins and look after me.
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Goodbyes are sad, no matter what the promise of tomorrow is.
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We aren't consistent in our treatment of animals.
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It's probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell. If you're going to spend two years of your life on something it has to matter to you, you have to be passionate about it.
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As soon as we are born, if we could but get up, bath, dress, shave, breakfast once for all, if we could 'cut' these monotonous cycles of routine. If the sun rose it would stay up, or once we were alive we were immortal!
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I am overcome by a feeling of complete detachment. I am a mere object to these people. I am barely human any more.
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Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
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You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will.
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Maybe Iceland could be sort of a testing ground for solutions because we are few and because we are really a tech-oriented nation. Everybody is a gadget freak. We spend a lot of time indoors.
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I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
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There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized.
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I was pregnant, and, like, 'Being a mom's going to be easy!' And now I'm like, 'Great.'
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You become things, you become an atmosphere, and if you become it, which means you incorporate it within you, you can also give it back. You can put this feeling into a picture. A painter can do it. And a musician can do it and I think a photographer can do that too and that I would call the dreaming with open eyes.
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You've got to be a certain type of person to be a professional fighter. I prefer to do it for pretend.
