Baltasar Kormakur Quotes

'The Oath' seems like the perfect project for me, coming off the back of a big-scale adventure film like 'Everest.' I want to delve into an intimate, dark and psychological world where the characters are claustrophobic.

Baltasar Kormakur

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• If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.

  

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• It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

  

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• My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.

  

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• One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.

  

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• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

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• My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

  

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• No, I am a crier and if people ever saw me privately they would be shocked at what a bowl of mush I am underneath it all.

  

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• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

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• If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

  

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• Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

  

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• There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.

  

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• Yeah, um, I do twitter because I want people to, you know, get to know me, my fans, or my fans to get to know me, you know, just see what type of person I am. You know, hopefully be more on an intimate level with me as opposed to a distant level.

  

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• Don't expect a pat on the back for merely doing your job, but know that you'll get one for doing it exceptionally well.

  

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• 'The Oath' seems like the perfect project for me, coming off the back of a big-scale adventure film like 'Everest.' I want to delve into an intimate, dark and psychological world where the characters are claustrophobic.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Adventure