Francis Alys Quotes
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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I've been in more laps than a napkin.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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Having a book censored means something. It means you have deeply offended one or more people who felt they needed to protect unsuspecting readers from your inflammatory words, thoughts, and images.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
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You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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What's more important to 'SNL': comedy or buzz? To the writers, players and guest hosts, it's probably the former; to Lorne Michaels and the suits at NBC, it's ultimately probably the latter.
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Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
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The next time a former child star is in the news, look at the age at which he or she started performing. Then imagine making a life-changing decision at that age. Chances are good he or she wasn't the one who made it.
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Nobody would let us do 'Crisis' again.
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To hear the appreciation, the screams - that's what any of us need. We're at our best when we're wanted.
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'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.
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As a kid, there was a painting of 'Appeal to the Great Spirit' that I would see when I would get oatmeal bowls out of the cupboard. This painting, it was so real to me that it frightened me.
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Lewd women, let the voluptuous Saint-Ange be your model; after her example, be heedless of all that contradicts pleasure's divine laws, by which all her life she was enchained.
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I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.
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The thing that's very puzzling to somebody who's been in Pakistan repeatedly since 1983 is lots of people live in compounds with high walls in Pakistan. I mean, that's so completely routine. In fact, you know, it would be un-routine to have the reverse.
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It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most of us makes life worth living and are devoid of envy of what they have missed. I have never made up my mind whether they are fools or wise men.
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In the eye of the tornado, there's no more high and low, no floor and sky.
