Manu Bennett Quotes
Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
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The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
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All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.
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I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.
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As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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We don't have one of those houses where there's a rope that separates the kids' area from the adult area. There's a happy medium. It's all about fabric choices, accessories.
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.
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'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts of feelings.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
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It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.
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I believe imagination to be a uniquely human gift. The reason I like my job, and have liked it for more than half a century, is that I get to use my imagination.
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Everyone in L.A. loves sushi, and I don't understand it at all.
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The whole idea of genre and categorising films is a critic's construct. For me, I just try and make stories and see where they go, but there's nothing wrong with horror; there's nothing wrong with romantic comedies.
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Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthest from reality.
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
