Christian Bale Quotes
There are occasions when I've pretended to be in a firefight, and then there are people who have really been in a firefight. Clearly it's absolutely ridiculous, and even disrespectful, to suggest that I understand what that is.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
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I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.
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I've owned a lot of dogs in my life - Marcela, Rusty, Petey Pup, Precious, Rosy and Ava. Each were in love with life's simple pleasures, but being people in dog suits, as they seem to be, they each had a defined personality!
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Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.
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I'm all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful and give the book what's really 'at stake,' but ultimately it's not about them - it's always a personal story of everyday people thrust into life-threatening situations and having to perform heroic acts.
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Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.
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There are occasions when I've pretended to be in a firefight, and then there are people who have really been in a firefight. Clearly it's absolutely ridiculous, and even disrespectful, to suggest that I understand what that is.
