Scott Adkins Quotes
Best fight ever in a movie: 'They Live.' I want to do a martial arts version of that, where you think it's ended, and it just keeps on going. I love that fight. It was funny as well. Unexpected.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.
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Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.
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We can become anyone we want to become. It takes focusing on the aspect of ourselves we want to change and reflecting on the beliefs that cause us to act in ways that are counter to the change we seek.
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If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.'
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I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.
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Every time you do a big sword fight surrounded by a couple of hundred extras, it's a fun day at work.
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Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women.
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Apple! Boy, what a story. No taxes paid, everything made abroad - yet everyone worships them. This new iPhone, there's nothing new in it. Just a golden color. What the hell, right? When people start playing with color, you know they're played out.
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Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.
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Like tens of millions of Americans, I will not vote for Hillary Clinton and desire to vote for a bold, conservative leader.
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.
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What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt.
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I think part of the reason that I have been successful, though, despite maybe not always fitting my message into the pre-packaged formulas, is there is this whole other media ecology out there of the Internet and Instagram and memes and talk shows and comedy, and I'm pretty good at that.
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Best fight ever in a movie: 'They Live.' I want to do a martial arts version of that, where you think it's ended, and it just keeps on going. I love that fight. It was funny as well. Unexpected.
