Irina Shayk Quotes
My father used to be a fisherman, so it always makes me feel close to him when I am there on the water catching my dinner.
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I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
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Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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I was very rebellious.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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When I was growing up, I was very lucky. My family was the most important thing to me. They provided me with somewhere safe to grow and learn, and I know I was fortunate not to have been confronted by serious adversity at a young age.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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I knew that I wanted to write about a very young woman because I wanted to see the eyes of the art world in a fresh or even slightly naive way. Because there's something very honest about entering a room and not having a read on everyone there.
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I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.
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It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.
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Squid experts have been debating for some time about whether the giant squid is a passive predator that just floats around in the water and waits to bump into something. I was never one to imagine it to be passive.
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Spacewalking trumps everything. Viscerally, it is a phenomenal place to be; to be able to glance right and see the world, glance left and see the universe, and realise for a moment that you're holding on to your known existence with one hand. That's the thing.
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The Greenpeace booth at all the rock and roll shows nowadays are akin to the old sorcerers who used to stand in the middle of villages warning of danger, 'When night wolf swallows mother moon, there will be great famine.'
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My father used to be a fisherman, so it always makes me feel close to him when I am there on the water catching my dinner.
