Scott Adkins Quotes
When I was ten years old, my dad and brother did JUDO so I went along because I felt like I was missing out. They eventually gave up and I continued, then moved into Tae Kwon Do, kickboxing and various other martial arts. I did lots of different things, but mostly things like Wushu, Jeet Kune Do, Krav Maga and stuff like that.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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Of course, a movie is in constant flux.
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I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.
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I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.
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Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
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I couldn't do what I do day-in and day-out if I didn't love the game.
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George Reeves was really Superman in my eyes. For him to come on the set and be there was a treat for me.
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Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.
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The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.
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Certainly situation comedy is harder than people who are good at it make it look, but it's fun to do something different.
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As a director on 'The Office,' there's a tremendous weight that comes with directing features. I was being asked to direct a show that had already won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Steve Carell and the cast had already won the Screen Actor's Guild Awards.
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It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
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When I was ten years old, my dad and brother did JUDO so I went along because I felt like I was missing out. They eventually gave up and I continued, then moved into Tae Kwon Do, kickboxing and various other martial arts. I did lots of different things, but mostly things like Wushu, Jeet Kune Do, Krav Maga and stuff like that.
