Martin Henderson Quotes

It's actually reassuring to see people struggling to do our accent instead of us constantly trying to emulate British or American accents, which we are always asked to do.

Martin Henderson

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My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never listened in class because I was always daydreaming about racing. I never thought for a moment about doing anything else. There was no guarantee that I'd make a career in it but I never had any plan B.

Jenson Button

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You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved because the movie is almost always bad when you do that.

John Lee Hancock

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What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.

Angela Davis

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People don't realize enough how important and influentical John Carpenter has been in electronic music. He did his soundtracks by himself, using mostly electronic and analog synthesizers. He's a cult figure with DJs these days for good reasons.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra.

Michael Bolton

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I was shooting a mini-series for Sundance/BBC, called 'Top of the Lake,' that was shot by Jane Campion, who's a beautiful native New Zealander and famous film director. The role I was playing was very intense, and they shaved half my hair off. So, I looked like this post-apocalyptic character.

Jay Ryan

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What the world does not need is a Haggadah that pats itself on the back. It needs a Haggadah that gets out of the way, that starts a conversation and gets out of the way.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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I was a late bloomer. I tried out for the football team, and I got locked off the field. That's how I wound up in drama.

Dennis Quaid

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I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M.

Douglas Coupland

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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.

Christiaan Barnard

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I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.

Craig Ferguson

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Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.

Bob Taft

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