Alexander Gustafsson Quotes

You want to be like a ticking bomb. As calm as possible before the fight, to save energy… But ready to explode the second you step into the cage.

Alexander Gustafsson

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• I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • People
  • Work
  • God

• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Years
  • Actor
  • Over

• A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've got to be seen as dark and slightly dangerous. But I'm not like that and I've realised that I don't need to put that on. People will buy the books whether they see a photo of you dressed in black or not.

  

  Ian Rankin
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• Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

  

  Eartha Kitt
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• I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.

  

  Iman
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  • Look
  • White

• When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

  

  Ted Rall
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  • Think
  • I Think

• I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • You
  • Said
  • Stock

• In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Hate
  • Blood
  • Jewish

• I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Think
  • Laugh

• People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Judge
  • Chelsea

• I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • People
  • Me
  • Creativity

• There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Country
  • Christian
  • Logic

• The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Body
  • Movies

• Even though my shoes are different from Ferragamo's aesthetic, which is more classic, I learned the importance of fit and quality. We were making shoes like they used to, by hand, and I carried that with me.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Different
  • Me
  • Hand

• Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Different
  • Sing
  • Breath

• I am not a fan of westerns particularly.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Fan
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• I love actors. I married one. OK, I married a fantastic one.

  

  Felicity Huffman
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  • Married
  • Fantastic

• When you produce and direct, your movies are different to you. They're not just something you act in.

  

  Campbell Scott
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  • Movies

• In temptations against chastity, the spiritual masters advise us, not so much to contend with the bad thought, as to turn the mind to some spiritual, or, at least, indifferent object. It is useful to combat other bad thoughts face to face, but not thoughts of impurity.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Mind
  • Bad
  • Spiritual

• There is something about veganism that is not easy, but the difficulty is not inherent in veganism, but in our culture.

  

  Will Tuttle
  • Culture
  • Vegetarian
  • Inherent

• Obviously, the intention was not to go back to images traditionally valued as worthy or holy images and shapes, but exactly the opposite; its main purpose had to be to realise as sacred art, anything which so far had been regarded as of little value and pitiful.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Art
  • Purpose
  • Value

• And Cape Town is not what it used to be. Foreigners have left their imprint on our culture.

  

  K. Sello Duiker
  • Culture

• You want to be like a ticking bomb. As calm as possible before the fight, to save energy… But ready to explode the second you step into the cage.

  

  Alexander Gustafsson
  • Energy
  • Fight
  • Cage