Louis Sachar Quotes
Well, let me tell you something, Caveman. You are here on account of one person. If it wasn't for that person, you wouldn't be here digging holes in the hot sun. You know who that person is?" "My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.
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I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
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I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'
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Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want to take my time and put effort on my future work so that foreign people get to know me better, and I also want to enjoy that process itself!
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
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Prioritizing spending and maximizing the effectiveness of taxpayer dollars is absolutely essential. We must draw the line, realigning programs when necessary and also eliminating failed programs.
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The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.
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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
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And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that.
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I represent celebrities, but I am not a celebrity.
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There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
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The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.
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For now, decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.
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Preachers are not called to be politicians but soul winners.
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I'm just going to try to stay employed. That's the tough part in this business.
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Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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Well, let me tell you something, Caveman. You are here on account of one person. If it wasn't for that person, you wouldn't be here digging holes in the hot sun. You know who that person is?" "My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.
