Taron Egerton Quotes
I learned how to ski for 'Eddie the Eagle.' I never skied before. So I had to go out to Germany a couple of weeks early and make sure I could ski.
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It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
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If someone said, 'You can go live in this little town in Costa Rica for a couple of weeks and all you've got to do is sing for us,' I would do that. That's more exciting to me than the prospect of going on some national tour, where you're going to play arenas or sheds every night, because of the crushing repetition of that kind of line.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.
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Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.
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As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.
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Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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Most of the umpires, it's amazing: 98 percent of them will not hold a grudge. I always felt a couple of them did. I never wanted to argue with an umpire in my life.
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Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.
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To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.
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Over my career, I've reinvented myself numerous times. I covered the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA. I wrote about labor wars, trade wars and real wars. I chronicled a nuclear plant meltdown and the defeat of Communism. I co-founded a couple of media businesses.
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I am the biggest geek and fan of film and TV, and I just go through phases.
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We have this historic problem that we have a quarter of our population, the people of Quebec, who have never signed on to the Constitution. That can't go on forever.
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I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.
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The American nation in the sixth ward is a fine people; they love the eagle - on the back of a dollar.
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I live in New York. I lost some 150 friends, neighbors and constituents on Sept. 11.
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If you wish to speak to Allah, then do dikhr. If you are eager to meet him, then sms while you drive
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You've got to be pretty mean to pick up on women who only know you from television and then cast them aside.
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I learned how to ski for 'Eddie the Eagle.' I never skied before. So I had to go out to Germany a couple of weeks early and make sure I could ski.
