Francis Alys Quotes
I am interested in seeing how a certain situation can develop with potential accidents. First, I am inspired by the acts of potential collaborators. It tends to be an action they have already done in a different context. I am very clear about the rules of the game, but once it's launched, I don't intervene at all.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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The world is always in movement.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
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I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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The heart of Univision – and what we do – is here in Miami.
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These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.
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The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire.
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A good fight scene is really a good love scene.
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Having been on a private jet only two or three times, it's one of life's great luxuries.
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When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people to make progress, they have to get feedback and information on how they're doing.
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A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
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Leaving Interscope was not a personal thing. These record companies are a certain kind of machine, and we weren't able to function in it.
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I actually never liked writing on my own or in school until I'd had my blog for a while and realized I'd been writing every day for years.
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When I met Dante I didn't work in the movies, but I enjoyed so much the movies. I worked in interior design and when I met Dante, we tried to do something together.
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I wanted to write about school because most of my audience at the particular time was of a school element.
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Dave Foley and I have been friends for a very long time. We both actually have the same lawyer in Toronto.
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Male writers don't want to be judged in the room. They want to be able to scarf an entire bag of potato chips while cracking fart jokes and making lewd comments without fear of feminine disapproval. But we're your co-workers, not your wives.
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Every corporation worth its salt is throwing money at Deep Web research, not least Google. The company that unlocks the mysteries of the Deep Web will obtain power of an enormous magnitude.
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I grew up in a working class neighborhood in Sweden, which, during my teens, gentrified and is now completely middle class and even upper middle class.
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The importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven years ago. Having experienced the loss first hand, I am inspired to do everything I can to break the cycle and prevent families from losing loved ones to this preventable disease.
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I am interested in seeing how a certain situation can develop with potential accidents. First, I am inspired by the acts of potential collaborators. It tends to be an action they have already done in a different context. I am very clear about the rules of the game, but once it's launched, I don't intervene at all.
