Baltasar Kormakur Quotes
The winters are too long, and there's only one airline, so it's difficult to escape when you feel frustrated or claustrophobic. The audience for our films isn't very large, so it's difficult to support an industry. But, Iceland is beautiful. Sometimes it's hard to imagine living anywhere else.
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I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
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A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.
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I do not support a livable wage.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
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When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.
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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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The hippocampus helps record both types of memories initially, and it helps retain them for the medium term. The hippocampus also helps us access old personal memories in long-term storage in other parts of the brain.
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It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.
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Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.
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When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I'm going to make a difference and lead by example and actively put in place policies and practices to support women.'
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My mom told me a long time ago, 'Never get in a fight with a lady.'
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
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Empowering innovations require long-term investments, which tie up capital for years and years. So companies are using capital to create more capital, and consequently, the world is awash in capital, but the innovations we need to advance aren't there.
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I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I have had my share of success. Now like the old Irish minstrel, I have hung up my harp because my songs are all sung.
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It's a truism that you can investigate anything forever.
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I was a terrible reader as a kid. I mean terrible. Super slow and very unfocused. It took me forever to read a book, and I remember being well into high school and still needing my mom to sit down and read aloud to me so I could pass my English tests and such.
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I look on myself as a sort of hybrid, having grown up in the world of Shakespeare out in the cornfields of Ohio.
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The winters are too long, and there's only one airline, so it's difficult to escape when you feel frustrated or claustrophobic. The audience for our films isn't very large, so it's difficult to support an industry. But, Iceland is beautiful. Sometimes it's hard to imagine living anywhere else.
