Vern Buchanan Quotes
My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
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I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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I love Cameron Diaz, and I love Drew Barrymore.
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I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
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People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful.
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It was Christmas Eve. Big snowflakes fluttered slowly through the air like white feathers and made all of the Heavenly Valley smooth and white and quiet and beautiful. Tall fir trees stood up to their knees in snow and their outstretched hands were heaped with it. Those that were bare of leaves wore soft white fur on their scrawny, reaching arms and all the stumps and low bushes had been turned into fat white cupcakes.
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I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.
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Artists can most definitely control the culture of fashion. Kids and different fans look up to us for dressing pointers.
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When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model - whether that's as a parent being observed by their kids or a leader under the microscope of their followers - it creates a natural stepping up of how we carry ourselves and what we expect from ourselves.
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My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
