Arthur Saxon Quotes
If you must use dumbbells for daily training, use heavy ones with fewer repetitions rather than light bells with numerous repetitions.
Quotes to Explore
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.
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I think people have to sharpen their eyes and look. I always feel like a big sponge: I feel like I learn lots of things by osmosis, and I feel that I'm always absorbing. I mean, when people say, 'What is your inspiration?' I could throw up. I mean, I'm inspired by the fact I get up in the morning. And I'm still here.
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I acted my heart out.
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We're like a travelling circus... We're always on the go.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.
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The wise man warns me that life is but a dewdrop on the lotus leaf.
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The web is democratising and also the voice of people who don't think they have another outlet. And that voice can be punitive.
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A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
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If Hollywood is going to keep going, the writers need to be creatively fulfilled by creating their own things. We need to generate new ideas, so we're not always cannibalizing old ones.
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All of our ancestors came from somewhere.
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I try to create some stupid entertainment for really smart people that they don't feel too stupid watching. In 'Xanadu,' the biggest laugh was a reference to Achilles.
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Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.
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In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, 'Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn't understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn't fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn't want it to get any worse. You're the mother of my kids - I don't want to hate you.'
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You cannot teach a person how to write songs. It's about being your own person and following your instincts.
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Our experience is that it is not terribly difficult to do business in China. But the issue is, how much stability do you have in terms of what you negotiate up front and when you've got your feet and your investments on the ground.
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You know, differentiating between training and matches. If they are all matches it becomes very natural to shoot them, although Dan thinks I should shoot more of them. I think I shoot plenty of them.
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Before acting took off, I was a professional kiteboarder training for the world circuit; with a sporting activity, you have to be determined, and it taught me to have a thick skin, which came in use after going to so many auditions and being told 'no.'
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You're either ghetto or you're not.
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I think I've always been pretty shameless about seeking out people much smarter and much more experienced than me from the very beginning.
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I had assumed I'd pack my bags and head elsewhere after 'Constellation,' but Chechnya is creeping its way into the margins of my second book.
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If you must use dumbbells for daily training, use heavy ones with fewer repetitions rather than light bells with numerous repetitions.
