Karl Urban Quotes
It's such a small industry here you inevitably end up working with the same people over and over again. There are only so many actors to go around, which is good for us.
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With network, shows are pulled half the time after three episodes whether they're good or they're not good. It's a numbers game. With cable, they can take a lot more liberties.
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I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learning about how good he is.
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I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.
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I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed.
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I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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I brought in a yogurt master from Turkey. I went to Greece. I was always going back and forth, from New York to Turkey and Greece. The recipe we use has been around hundreds and hundreds of years. Growing up in Turkey, not a day would go by that we wouldn't eat yogurt like this.
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I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.
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I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
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I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.
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In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
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The kids get cheated out of a lot of times with their dad. They were good about it.
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I was a very, very good congressman.
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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
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When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.
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You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.
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I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
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The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
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People who try to commit suicide - don't attempt to save them! . . . China is such a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people.
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You've been hearing me say it's a rigged system, but now I don't say it anymore because I won. It's true. Now I don't care.
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There is a tremendous amount of planning that goes on through a complex operating system. But being able to control the weather is not within our business plan.
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I can pretty much get in touch with my evil side pretty easily.
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It's such a small industry here you inevitably end up working with the same people over and over again. There are only so many actors to go around, which is good for us.
