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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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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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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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles.
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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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Stop focusing on Trump so much and focus on your government. Make sure you elect the people that you want in your neighborhoods, in your cities, in your state.
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It takes courage to pull the ball down and reverse field and do some of the crazy things that Favre and Manziel do. There's going to be consequences when sometimes it doesn't work out. But it takes a tremendous amount of guts and courage to go make a play when there's nothing there instead of throwing the ball away.
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I want to read a lot of comic books. I want to watch movies. I want to rest.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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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.
