Baltasar Kormakur Quotes
I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.
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We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
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I have been Fat Joe since I was a kid. It's always been my name and always will be.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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I do love pasta. It gets me into trouble. If I could give up pasta and bread, I'd look like Cate Blanchett.
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Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.
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It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.
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People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'
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Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
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There are people that bring artists to me to look at it, and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.
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I'm dying, and I'm having fun.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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When I first encountered the 'Sigma Force' novels - long before I became friends with Jim Rollins - a bookseller told me that these stories were about 'geeks with guns.' While not entirely accurate, that's pretty close to the mark, and that really speaks to me.
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Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
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I really don't like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.
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At graduate school in 1999, I finally had the chance to examine why I believe what I believe. I realised that I'd had no period in my life where I'd consciously tried to develop my own theology.
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I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.
