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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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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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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'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.
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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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When I was little, we used to have Atari.
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There are some places … that the road doesn't go in a circle. There are some places where the road keeps going.
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I have loved colours, and not flowers;Their motion, not the swallows wings;And wasted more than half my hoursWithout the comradeship of things.
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Knowing that certain nights whose sweetness lingers will keep returning to the earth and sea after we are gone, yes, this helps us to die.
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There are no worse cliches than southern cliches. They make my skin crawl.
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The Ford Flex is a really, really cool car. You get inside and you have so much headroom and it's really comfortable to drive and it's real techy inside. You look at the screen and it's blue and you've got all kinds of controls. Everything is digital.
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Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
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People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.
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The Republican game is hilariously transparent: if Obama doesn't shift to more muscular postures, he's not a patriot. If he does, he's a flip-flopper.
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In the eye of the tornado, there's no more high and low, no floor and sky.
