Andy Serkis Quotes
As I started to research gorillas, I began to understand that they're all totally individual and idiosyncratic, and they have their own personalities.
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Every time a young girl comes in and asks me for advice, if you start your conversation with, 'How hard is it as a black woman,' or, 'How hard is it as a woman,' I turn you around. Because I cannot - we cannot look at the roadblocks and see the road at the same time.
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I love boxing, MMA, and hiking with my dog. I work out 3 times a week, and on my off days, I do yoga to keep my body relaxed and to stretch.
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A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.
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Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.
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In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.
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Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
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This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive.
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Sex is energy.
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I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
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I think that the worst thing is realizing that mankind - that - that human beings can be so horrible to other human beings.
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I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything.
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When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for 'The Simpsons' who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.
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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
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If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.
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It was extraordinary 'cause I was 17 years old when I first danced with Edward Villella. And we were both young. But I had seen him dance, and he was already a star. So he was just so gentle and wonderful and kind, and we had a great rapport together. He was one of the most exciting dancers of our day.
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Especially right after 9/11. Especially when the war in Afghanistan is going on. There was a real sense that you don't get that critical of a government that's leading us in war time.
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Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.
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What Alvin figured out was that when you’re Making, you don’t use people like tools. You don’t wear them out to achieve your purpose. You wear yourself out helping them achieve theirs. You wear yourself out teaching and guiding, persuading and listening to advice and letting folks persuade you, when it happens they’re right.
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Whatever the offense dictates to allow me doing what I or this offense needs to do to win games, I'm going to do it.
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Likeminded folks shop in the same circles.
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It's not a bad idea to be single, so I can concentrate on my job.
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As I started to research gorillas, I began to understand that they're all totally individual and idiosyncratic, and they have their own personalities.
