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My first British film was Gurinder Chadha's 'Bend It Like Beckham,' which was a huge international success.
I am very happy for all the players doing the Black Lives Matter bend the knee. We are all in the same boat.
I don't ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after 'East Is East' and 'Bend It.'
A lot of big guys can't bend down, have knee pain, are slow. I'm fast. I'm flexible, especially for my size.
I have a certain perspective and intolerance for people who try to twist and bend whatever the truth might be.
I'm sure there are people in all sports that bend the rules but I'm not going to sit here and point the finger.
My dad used to call me 'the human pretzel' because I was able to bend my body, and because my legs are very long.
Comedy isn't just timing; it's about rooting out the funny in the real. You just bend reality to the left a little.
I find that moving keeps me optimistic, the idea of what's going to be down the road a bit or around the next bend.
Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Pictorial is something that I am not used to. You have to pose, smile, bend your arm, straighten up, look to the left.
A strong willed woman is often feared. But more often she is pushed to the tether of her patience, forced to bend down.
I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.
Being a president is an impossible job - it's naive to think someone can do the job and not bend the law here and there.
U.S. infrastructure projects ought to support workers and create jobs in South Bend and Gary, not in Shenzhen and Guangzhou.
Black holes do not emit light, so you visualize them through gravitational lensing - how they bend light from other objects.
My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the road.
If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.
Can a democratic nation fight a War on Terror and at the same time bend over backward so as not to offend a few visitors' rights?
It takes someone like Ram Gopal Varma to change the norms, bend the rules, shake convention, and come up with something like 'Road.'
However vain our entire political class or organizations are, in the name of cynicism we cannot bend towards authoritarian populism.
I've kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I'll spring back to what I originally was.
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
I'm less of a 'Star Wars' fan, with googley monsters, than actually how do we bend this reality out, and how many other realities exist?
We want the digital world to bend to your physical life, your real emotional life as a person, and we don't want you to bend to computers.
I'm fair-minded, maybe. Maybe I bend over backward to give people too much benefit of the doubt. And I'll give credit where credit is due.
I turn my feet in when I'm sitting down. I tend to put my arms across me when I'm sat thinking; I bend forwards. Loads of protective curves.
I knew my body could take the battle of everyday training and take the battle of falls and bending in ways that bodies really shouldn't bend.
As the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, I see on a daily basis the impact of politics and policy on my family, neighbors, friends, and residents.
I'm not thrilled that I have a tramp stamp. When you see people bend over in their really low-cut jeans, I'm like, 'Oh... that's what I have.'
I got injured at the Olympic Trials in 2000. I could not jump. I could not walk on my leg properly. I couldn't bend my knee. I couldn't straighten it.
When we're looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.
Things come in a quieter way to me. It's not laziness, and it's not diffidence. I just know how far you have to bend for work. That's important for me.
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.
Supernatural films allow you to bend the rules of time and space - that's really fun, especially for screenwriters who often get shot down for logic reasons.
It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.
It is just not something we need to forget easily, to just bend the knee, to put on our t-shirts, Black Lives Matter, and one week after everyone forgets that.
I'm more of somebody who'll bend over backwards for people and, you know, wait at the back of the line until everybody's taken care of. That's really my nature.
From the start, I held the pick in an unusual way. I used to bend my thumb way back in order to get a good angle for fast playing. I played that way for 10 years.
I would get called a hunchback as I am tall and would always bend down to hear people. This is the reason trolls don't affect me, as I have been bullied in school.
I don't have any respect for judges who arrive at the result first, and then try to figure out some way they can bend the law to reach their particular predilections.
Everybody in the world now wants to twerk. We don't twerk here in New Orleans, we bounce, we wiggle, we wobble, we shake, we bust it open, bend it over, we do it all.
I grew up in Stoneham, a little suburb of Boston. It's pronounced 'Stone 'em' because Massachusetts doesn't bend to the will of 'how letters are supposed to be said.'
You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'
'Runaways' was exciting because it was something brand-new and fresh, and I'm hoping to be able to bend the rules in my own way of what a Marvel superhero story can be.
Aang was an airbending prodigy, but didn't even discover he could bend the other three elements on his own; whereas Korra was bending three of the elements at age four.
My concept is drag queens are not a reflection of society, they are a fun house reflection of society where we bend, and twist and manipulate the anxieties we all feel.