Ted Dekker Quotes

I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.

Ted Dekker

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LifeAgeParentsMeLearnYoung

Showing up to games year after year, no matter what the product on the field gives you back, is a learned behavior - sort of like rats in a maze searching for cheese. The rat learns the maze, learns where the cheese is placed and eventually goes to it without thought, even when the cheese is taken away. The rat doesn't know anything else.

Joe Cowley

ThoughtBehaviorShowing UpYearYou

Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests with my creative interests.

Jeffrey Wright

CreativeMusiciansPoliticalPlay

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

Matthew McConaughey

LifeManMovingRoadMy LifeNeed

You get annoyed about things in real life, and then the tragic thing is that while you are moaning on the awful injustice and suffering of something, something grimly comic will then strike you about it, like a parasite feeding off the misery of the world.

Stewart Lee

LifeSufferingWorldYouInjustice

I liked theatre because I could hide behind a role I was playing, but now, I just love being on stage. I don't pretend that I'm anyone else, I just show my full range when I am up there, and it's very liberating.

Sigrid

LoveI AmTheatreHideNowStage

I grew up playing guitar and writing music, and I always wanted to be a songwriter and a singer and play the guitar. But while I was finishing college, my drag became lucrative, so I had to pursue what was going to pay the bills - and doing comedy as Trixie was something that I was able to market.

Trixie Mattel

MusicCollegeWritingGuitarComedy

I don't think I could do a superhero movie. I'm just not really that type of guy.

Tom Sturridge

ThinkSuperheroGuyJustMovieType

Not many get a chance to hit the career re-set button.

Jason Bateman

ChanceCareerGetHitManyButton

I think like that all the time: nobody can block me, nobody can stop me, nobody can play the run the way I can. You've got to think like that all the time.

Jason Pierre-Paul

TimeMeThinkYouI CanPlay

We have to talk a little trash to sell fights, talk more, because we know we will profit more from that. It's important.

Jose Aldo

ProfitKnowImportantTrashTalk

Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.

Jonathan Coe

MePlacePlacesMoreLittleSeems

It's been 25 years now, and truthfully, time sometimes blurs the memory.

Bob Kane

TimeMemoryNowSometimesYears

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