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Jason Statham Quotes

I'm not as big a soccer fan as people might imagine, being British.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: british
Birth: September 12, 1972

Topics

People Soccer Imagine Big British

I learned so much by being an actor, and part of my sort-of development as a writer is big thanks to the scripts I read in my acting life.

Life Acting Actor Development Thanks

I was a short, chubby kid, pretty shy.

Short Shy Kid Pretty Chubby

I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space.

Culture Silence I Am Space Listening

When I started writing songs for Temple of the Dog, I went to my room with my acoustic guitar, and I was happy staying in that mode. It was more chordal based and more lyric driven. I enjoyed not making riff-based songs built around a guitar idea.

Dog Happy Writing Guitar Temple

My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She was five foot two, very feisty and very English.

Mother Parents She Two Lived Foot

While visiting Costa Rica, I was inspired to hear that someone had donated a playground to a local school. So when I returned to L.A., one day I just called the principal of a nearby elementary school and asked what I could do. Five years later, I've helped make over nine schools, repainting, renovating, and fixing up playgrounds.

Day School Someone Principal One Day

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Failure Determination Succeed Strong

The whole, 'Is the Internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge.

Good Challenge Value Internet Bad

My father wanted a boy. I was supposed to be called Albert. That was probably the beginning of why things got so complicated, because I wasn't a boy.

Father Beginning Complicated Boy Why

Nothing new is on the earth right now. Technology, the things that we're discovering, it's been sitting here just waiting for someone to brush it off and go, 'Oh, let me read that. Let me see how I can use this information.' And it doesn't matter if it's from a tech perspective or a philosophical perspective.

Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Technology Perspective Waiting Me

Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers.

William Julius Wilson

Negative Black White Workers Just

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

Good Know Arrogant Modest Architect

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