Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Quotes
David Ayer is known for being a very serious filmmaker, but he has a very great sense of humor.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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Women are builders of civil society. We are the ones who are going to build it. You know why? We have no choice. Either you shut up, and you are humiliated, or you do what I'm doing. You scream.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
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When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
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My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.
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There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
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I am a big fan of the old Howard Hawks films from the 30s and 40s, I was a big Hepburn and Tracey fan for a while and Woody Allen films that are a very different kind of romantic comedy.
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I'm generally risk averse, and most great entrepreneurs I know are as well.
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One day, my male companion (they took me for the female) told me what had really caused him to wander about the world and finally to leave it for the Moon. He had not been able to find a single country where the imagination was free.
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In 2012 there was a megafoolish, if well-funded, effort by a group called Americans Elect to raise an independent Cincinnatus to run for president via an Internet draft. It flopped, spectacularly.
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David Ayer is known for being a very serious filmmaker, but he has a very great sense of humor.
