Andy Serkis Quotes
You're watching your kids playing football, and you're not present. It's like the worst... it's horrible. I despise myself for it. I think it's a particularly male thing. Being present and in the moment with your kids is something a lot of men struggle with.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.
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I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.
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My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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I tend to stay away from the comics.
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I think ballet has influenced my personality a lot in the sense that I am very disciplined in all of my endeavours. I am always on time; I take things very seriously. I've built up my inner strength and self-esteem over time as I've improved as a dancer.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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In football, the worst things are excuses. Excuses mean you cannot grow or move forward.
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Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.
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If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.
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Let us be terrible in order to prevent the people from being terrible themselves!
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I'm in the early stages of a film called 'Freezing Time' about Eadweard Muybridge, the Victorian photographer who was really the forefather of cinema. Digital animators still treat his images like the Bible. He was a very obsessed man.
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You're watching your kids playing football, and you're not present. It's like the worst... it's horrible. I despise myself for it. I think it's a particularly male thing. Being present and in the moment with your kids is something a lot of men struggle with.
