Imran Amed Quotes
As much as technology has made me so much more efficient, enabling me to run a small but global company from where I happen to be, at times it feels like the technology is running me, as opposed to the other way round.
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In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.
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So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me.
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I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.
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Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.
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I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.
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It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
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I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.
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The most memorable engagement for me, I suppose, was an away-day to Leicester. I went without William, so I was rather apprehensive about that.
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
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I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
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I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.
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I watched 'Evil Dead' when I was 12. I was going through all the horror I could grab. I remember going to the video store and asking for something 'real.' And the guy gave me the 'Evil Dead' VHS. When you're 12, you're not supposed to see that.
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I was very shy, but when I performed, I felt like I was in my own little world. I became more confident. Dancing taught me discipline and to feel comfortable in my own skin.
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I'm basically a know-it-all, and I'm writing a book about it. I want it to be called 'Danson on Water' and have me on the cover in this Christlike pose, standing on the water.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.
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There is sort of a small town mentality on the east coast of Canada.
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I didn't even start dancing until I was in my thirties, and it was like flying.
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I had unusual parents. We'd been to Europe. We'd been in the theater. We were sort of like the Addams Family.
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I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.
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As much as technology has made me so much more efficient, enabling me to run a small but global company from where I happen to be, at times it feels like the technology is running me, as opposed to the other way round.
