Baltasar Kormakur Quotes

I'm the first Icelandic director who started working on U.S. movies. There are others behind me now, but it's like when Bjork opened the door for Icelandic musicians to work abroad. We're such a closed-off country, but Bjork broke the spell. And I'm glad it was a woman who did it. She showed us we could break this barrier.

Baltasar Kormakur

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: icelander
  • Birth: February 27, 1966

Topics

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Did I become a theater person right then, sitting in the Imperial Theater, waiting for the high piccolo note at the start of 'Pippin'? Maybe.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

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My goal is to write catchy songs that make people feel something.

Sigrid

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The problem with doing physically ambitious art is that to view it, you still have to be in your physical body.

Molly Crabapple

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There's a village in my computer - friends, fans, readers, and colleagues. It's a populous, sometimes chaotic little burg always bustling with news, gossip, opinions and potential excitement.

Lisa Unger

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I was a basketball player. And my mother even wanted me to quit because I hurt my leg. But I didn't know anything about football - from Pee-Wee on up, my friends would play, and I would never go with them.

Jason Pierre-Paul

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I can be a traditionalist but also play with Luke Bryan and get the crowd to go crazy. I think that mix is a lot of what has kept me going and kept people fired up about the music.

Jon Pardi

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We should be biased toward action. We are trying to be a nimble and cohesive culture where people can be heard and there is openness and innovation.

Dinesh Paliwal

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If I have a bunch of computer lingo that I have no idea what I'm speaking about, I really need to know what I'm talking about.

Chloe Bennet

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I would like to see both parties aggressively compete for the women's vote and talk about what they will do to unleash the economic power of women, to protect women's health, to provide the right policies that provide for real family stability and real family values.

Christie Hefner

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My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.

Boyd Rice

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I think Buddhism is a wonderful philosophy. I've had the good fortune to meet many wonderful teachers from that society.

Pierce Brosnan

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I want to stay active. I want to find that mind-body connection every single day, and I want other people to have that because we spend our lives on our phones, at our desks. We're not thinking about our bodies and the mental connections we should be having, and those moments help us push through to live our best life.

Payal Kadakia

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