Carl Weathers Quotes
When I start to get that few pounds, which I try to monitor, then I just pull back. So it's really just being conscious.
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I'm not coming back to play.
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I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.
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I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.
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It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.
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The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.
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For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.
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I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.
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When I'm not on a crazy schedule, I'll try to do yoga or the gym once or twice a week.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?
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Guys try to take you out of the game if they know they can. So especially if you've got a playmaker, guys on the defense would do that.
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I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.
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In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.
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How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
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I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.
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Sometimes I wish I could go back in time, sit down with myself and explain that things were going to be okay, that everybody loses ground sometimes and it doesn’t mean anything. It’s the way life works. This is hard to understand in the moment. You get to thinking about the girl who rejected you, the job you got fired from, the test you failed, and you lose sight of the big picture — the fact that life has a beautiful way of remaking itself every few weeks.
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I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success.
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When I was on Broadway, people would really just recognize me around the theater. When you're showing up on commercials and posters, the scope of people recognizing you gets a little wider.
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When I start to get that few pounds, which I try to monitor, then I just pull back. So it's really just being conscious.
