Andy Serkis Quotes
Working with and collaborating with and for Peter Jackson was an incredible experience because he is such a phenomenal filmmaker.
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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The stratosphere is a hostile place.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
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A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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Have confidence in everything. No matter what it is that you're doing, know that you can do it better than anyone.
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I definitely like to play characters that don't fit any kind of mold; that are slightly offbeat, because it's more fun to play.
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I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
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There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk rock.
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We are one of the most tolerant societies in the world, and in order to stay tolerant, my party believes that we should stop being tolerant to the people who are intolerant to us.
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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
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Working with and collaborating with and for Peter Jackson was an incredible experience because he is such a phenomenal filmmaker.
