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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If people ask, 'Are you Sherlock Holmes?', it's horribly naff, but I say, 'I'm not, I just look a bit like him' - which is how I feel. There are bad attributes of his that I really don't share!
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The safety of the flying public should not be for sale. Handing air traffic control over to a private entity partly governed by the airlines is both a risk and liability we can't afford to take.
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I had a regular battle with the dunghill-cock.
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I try to steal something from the great singers. Of course, I don't want to imitate their sound, but I try to do a sort of compromise.
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Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
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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.
