Gerad Adams Quotes
As a Canadian it's something you grow up with. Where I'm from in Canada the ground usually freezes in late October and the lake is frozen until late March. We learn to skate at a young age and I learned to skate when I was three. I was on an outdoor rink when I was three-years-old.
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No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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I think there's a certain level of trust that I have with women. I've always been honest, even when I haven't had good times in my life or my movie bombed or I've had great success. I've owned up to all of it.
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Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.
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When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.
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I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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There's going to be a picture of 'Mama' on my obit.
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Anything that looks good makes you feel better.
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That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.
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An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.
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So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.
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I'm not superstitious.
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I’m still having trouble convincing Pax that underwear and pants go together – underwear is not pants!
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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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I'm wary of the new contactless ways of paying. The idea of paying with your phone is a little worrying: I have lost more than one over the years.
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This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
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The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we're pretty dumpy creatures.
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As a Canadian it's something you grow up with. Where I'm from in Canada the ground usually freezes in late October and the lake is frozen until late March. We learn to skate at a young age and I learned to skate when I was three. I was on an outdoor rink when I was three-years-old.
