Francis Alys Quotes
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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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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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'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.
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My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.
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The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.
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I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes.
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That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.
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My theater has always been a political battle on the stage.
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Sweet is good. I'm not a fan of deep-fried things.
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It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.
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You play with the audience, and they play back with you. They get into it, and then everybody gets into it. I don't want to be like a monkey on stage and just go through the motions because then it wouldn't be fun anymore. I just pay attention to the audience and appreciate the fact that somebody wants to see us. That gets me psyched.
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In the eye of the tornado, there's no more high and low, no floor and sky.
