Scott Adkins Quotes
In the film industry, we tend to pick up where others have left off, and Id like to think the influences I picked up from Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme are visible in my work.Scott Adkins
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I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
Barry Jenkins -
I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
Damon Galgut -
'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
Magnus Scheving -
I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
Vincent Bugliosi -
I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.
Larry Hagman
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People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.
Maggie Smith -
There's no question there needs to be higher-paying opportunities for women. It's not that it hasn't existed in certain categories: Certain women have made a lot of money... Jennifer Lawrence... is being paid a lot of money, rightfully so, for the franchises she's in.
Patrick Whitesell -
The qualities that make parties such a nightmare for people - and also so pleasurable - make them incredibly important inside of fiction. There's a chaos agent quality to them: You just don't know who's going to be there or why. You could run into an old enemy, an old friend, an old friend who's become an enemy.
Alexander Chee -
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Ann Landers -
I think the story is important in every business. Why do you exist, why are you here, why is your product different, why should I pay attention, why should I care?
Jason Fried -
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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You can't value others until you value yourself.
Caroline Ghosn -
In India, we now see many highly qualified professionals ready to work in the rural hinterland and in their own towns and cities to tackle development issues directly without depending much on the government.
Jacqueline Novogratz -
To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I suppose it's significant, at least to me, that my first work should be about a historical figure.
Peter Ackroyd -
The world record is like you we went to the theater to see this movie, and it was really good, and it had an unexpected ending, and you left the theater saying, 'Wow, that was such a great movie.'
Ashton Eaton -
The Yahoo story is still being written.
Jerry Yang -
Hopefully, that people could see a progression in my performances because that's how it's always felt to me.
Christian Slater
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I hate to see a guy who insults a girl or is bad with her. Immediately I think she would be better if she was with me.
Niall Horan One Direction -
If something ain't working, it ain't working. You can't stick with it.
Amy Sherman-Palladino -
The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
Walter Gropius -
In the film industry, we tend to pick up where others have left off, and Id like to think the influences I picked up from Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme are visible in my work.
Scott Adkins