Michael Moore (1954) American filmmaker, author, social critic, and liberal activist
As quoted in "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" (23 June 2007)
2009
Interview 2
Context: Action films are definitely a lot of training and I do a lot of my own stunts, so I definitely am in there for the long haul for the training process. But I love it. Martial arts is something I’ve always loved doing. It’s the only form of exercise that I can deal with. Everything else is really boring and mind-numbing. So for me it’s just really fun. I love to sort of feel like a superhero in that sense, to be able to fly through the air and to be on wires. It just makes me feel like I’m in Magic Mountain or something. I love it.
Michael Moore (1954) American filmmaker, author, social critic, and liberal activist
As quoted in "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" (23 June 2007)
2009
Beiwen Zhang (1990) badminton player
"Zhang happy her destiny is in her own hands" in Today Online https://www.todayonline.com/sports/zhang-happy-her-destiny-her-own-hands (17 April 2016)
“I think of boxing a lot with standup. I even train with boxing trainers”
Louis C.K. (1967) American comedian and actor
Aint it Cool http://www.aintitcool.com/node/43834
Molly Shannon (1964) American actress
Interview on Cranky Critic http://www.crankycritic.com/qa/mollyshannon.html
Wesley Snipes (1962) film actor, Martial artist, film producer
Wesley Snipes, Snipes in 2014 An Interview with Wesley Snipes: ‘The Expendables 3’ Interview http://www.theaquarian.com/2014/08/27/an-interview-with-wesley-snipes-the-expendables-3-interview/, The Aquarian Weekly, 27 August 2014
Julie Taymor (1952) American film and theatre director
Academy of Achievement interview (2006)
Context: !-- One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it. … What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality. … -->Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry. … A lot of what I do in theater is cinematic, and a lot of what I do in film is theatrical, but there are different rules to it. … each art form makes me more interested in the other art form because I try and bring in those techniques and those ideas and put them into a different way of using them.
William Ramsay (1852–1916) Scottish chemist (1852–1916)
Speculating on the nature of radioactive emanations, in his Nobel lecture http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1904/ramsay-lecture.html, December 12, 1904.