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Joe Taslim Quotes

It feels so good to be able to be part of an action flick like 'The Raid' and to read the rave reviews in a number of film festivals.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: indonesian
Birth: June 23, 1981

Topics

Good Action Festivals Film Able

When I write, I don't like to be around any humans.

Write Like Humans Around I Write

We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.'

Habit Remember Want Kid Like Lives

When I was a kid growing up, we had a cherry tree in the backyard, 100 years old. I climbed it, and it gave shade in the summertime and excellent cherries in the late summer. Having cherry blossoms around gives the best springtime vibe ever.

Best Tree Growing Up Late Summer

Yes, I do sew. I started when I was around 8 or 9 and have been doing it off and on since then.

Doing Yes Started Off Been Around

The liberal entertainment industry is a fickle world. So it's about living in the moment, and it's about being clear with it and understanding that this is another opportunity to step up the staircase a little bit and create some newer opportunities and get involved in some other projects, as well as possibly creating your own.

John Pyper-Ferguson

Opportunity Moment Step World Create

I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up. The comedians by nature weren't very - I mean, they were sociable, but they hung out in cliques, and it's very hard to get accepted; lots of competition.

Nature Competition Doing Mean Hard

If you want something you can't afford, think what else that money could buy: a week's groceries, a month's rent, or a weekend away. That will put things into perspective.

Sophie Kinsella

Money Perspective Think Weekend You

I have no desire to be a centenarian. I think 90 is a great time. You've had a good innings. You have to deal with the cards that have been dealt, of course, but I don't think very old age, if you haven't got your marbles, can be very nice.

Good Age Great Time Old Age Think

Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Music Best Peace Me You Classic

Whenever a Gujarati or Sikh businessman comes to a Republican event, it begins with an appeal to Jesus Christ. While the Democrats are really good at making the outsider feel at home, the Republicans make little or no effort.

Good Home Effort Feel Jesus Christ

As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up.

Death Think Self Behavior Long You

I was raised poor, in a tenement building in Union City, New Jersey, the son of Cuban immigrants.

Son City Building Immigrants New

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