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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In the absence of full-fledged Congressional investigations, American policymakers rarely look back. They are bound by continuity and fealty across administrations and generations.
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I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.
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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
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As athletes, most of the time we deal with fans cussing at us, saying how much we suck.
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We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.
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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.
