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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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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I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.
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You know, a dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle.
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I think actors always find the dialogue doesn't quite fit, so you always have to play with it.
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Most people don't see half of what's in front of them. Your visual cortex does a shit load of imaging processing before the signal even gets to your brain, whose priorities are still checking the ancestral Savannah for dangerous predators, edible berries and climable trees. That's why a sudden cat in the night can make you jump and some people when distracted, can walk right out in front of a bus. Your brain just isn't interested in those large moving chunks of metal or the static heaps of brightly colored stuff that piles up in drifts around us. Never mind all that, says your brain, it's those silent fur-covered merchants of death you've got to watch out for.
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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.
