Carlos Alazraqui Quotes
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.
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The great love of my life is music.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.
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A tin roof is one of the greatest indicators of prosperity in the developing world.
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We tried two moderate Republican candidates, McCain and Romney, and we lost both times.
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Not all knowledge comes from college.
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I didn't know that there were many rules in music when I first started writing.
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I started doing stand-up in college.
