J Balvin (José Álvaro Osorio Balvin) Quotes
I moved to Oklahoma to learn English when I was 16 years old from Colombia for six months; then I moved to New York.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'
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I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'
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It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
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I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood.
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I am most attached to my mother, who always travels with me when I am on an outdoor location or abroad. She is my friend, who I share everything with.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
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I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.
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Don't forget I'm from a military family. I was in special training in the army. I am tall, sporty and - how do you say - you can always protect yourself... I have very strong security.
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I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.
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When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
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I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.
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I have differences of opinion within my own family, an Irish Catholic family. So, I do respect those that disagree.
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When I moved to Bombay, it was very harsh. I was nothing like what I am today. I couldn't speak a word of English. In England, people might be very understanding about that, but in Bombay, they're not very forgiving. 'If you don't speak English, how do you expect to work in Hindi films?'
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Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day.
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A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down from the NBA money-wise, but there is just as good of talent overseas as in the NBA. Not better talent.
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Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.
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Dabbing was a way of fashion that turned into a dance.
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I love being in Ojai. It's kind of a travel destination because I drive to it from Los Angeles. I also love Italy.
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I moved to Oklahoma to learn English when I was 16 years old from Colombia for six months; then I moved to New York.
