Bas Rutten Quotes
I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
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I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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Time stays, we go.
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It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
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Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Working with Adrien Brody was like going to Julliard, but instead of four years, I went for four weeks. He was like the Albert Einstein of professors, it was just the best experience of my life. Adrien was the most influential mentor in my acting career thus far, and even after the movie he continues to mentor me.
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I never count calories. Counting calories is stressful and intimidating, so I avoid it! I know that if I'm eating something that's a treat, I don't need to count it because I mostly eat healthy and am conscious of what I'm putting in my body.
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The problem is that they are all stars at Madrid. You need someone to carry the water to the well.
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While writing 'City Boy,' I relied mainly on my own memories. In particular, I was able to describe the effect of gay liberation on an individual life (mine) as events paralleled my own growing self-acceptance; in this case, the political truly was the personal.
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I have a platform, and I can help. I can be in spaces that reporters will never be in because I'm a protester.
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When you have a good idea, the money flows.
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I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.
