Asafa Powell Quotes
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
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I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I am a Zionist.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.
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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
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When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.
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I was initially rather charmed by David Cameron, but I think he's revealing himself to be a slightly darker and less charismatic figure than he first appeared. There's a brutality about him.
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I like to mix it up, yeah. I don't sort of think, 'Oh, I need to do a comedy, I've done three dramas this year.' I don't think of it like that, but I definitely from project to project I feel like I want to just do something different all of the time and stop, I don't want to bore myself or anyone else.
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The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little more.
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I see possibilities for a whole new way of painting, in which planes are used more freely. Weaving and embroidery make this possible.
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Sometimes I'm at home and I remember I'm supposed to do 100 push-ups and I don't.
