Success isn’t about the biggest house in the world. Success is about loving your family, taking care of your child.
ADAM BEACHIt’s what we put in our minds and our hearts to succeed. And success isn’t about money.
More Adam Beach Quotes
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I have a tendency get a little worked up. So I was interested in learning more about the complicated conflict and decided I would lend some of my time and energy to do so.
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After that movie I said, “Y’know what, I have to realistically wear my emotions now when I do a job. That’s gotta be as real as it gets. It’s not just dialogue anymore.”
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This movie shows that perspective from Scott’s character, and I love it. It shows the American Indians as the ones who respect and help out when people are needed. It’s a nice little twist.
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I think when I started acting it was the first time I got the freedom of expression.
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With this film, it’s nice to see that the trauma is presented from a white male that was in the Civil War and that trauma affects him in a way that still exists.
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I’m not gonna fall. I’m tired of falling. I’m tired of seeing our people fall. I don’t believe in failure.
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Smoke Signals really mirrored the way I grew up and how I felt, and that movie was the first time I’d dealt with my parents’ death and how I felt that loss and sadness and anger.
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We have to know that they exist and we have to take care of those traumas and learn to heal from them.
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Well to me growing, up I’ve had my own psychological war with my parents dying at such a young age. My mother was killed by a drunk driver, then two months later my father drowned.
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When faced with structural injustice, especially in the form of oppressive military occupations,
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He was out with his friends drinking and on medication for depression, and he didn’t come out of the water alive.
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We [Native Americans] respect being human beings, but also the natural and spiritual world and I thought that came across wonderfully
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Growing up with sexual abuse and having to be in gangs and dealing with my own trauma; finding the cultural identity when I was 16, and learning those traditional ways saved me from hurting myself.
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And I hope a lot of people get a sense of that; not to take away that we also have that warrior spirit.
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I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope.
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