AJ McLean (Alexander James McLean) Quotes
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I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
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In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
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Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.
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But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc.
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Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.
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I wrote my first novel when my daughter was about six months old.
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I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies that celebrated the region of where I lived.
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I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.
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Football has been everything to me since I was 10 years old.
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I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
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A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.
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My signature look is an eighties baby doll dress, combat boots with colorful socks sticking out, and then mounds of jewelry. I love silver and turquoise. I go to Montana every winter, so I hunt around for cool pieces there.
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And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear.
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There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.
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There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.
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I'll sing outside your window. I'm as old fashioned as they come.
