Alain Macklovitch (A-Trak) Quotes
I worked with him for years. I still think Kanye [West] is one of the most important people in music in the last ten years.

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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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Urfa chillies are a Turkish variety that are mild on heat but big on aroma. They're sweet, smoky, a lovely dark red, and go with just about anything.
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To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.
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We seem, as a culture, to start to adhere to these antiheroes and have grown tired of the traditional, straight-up-and-down good guy.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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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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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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Singing is a prayer to me.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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When Dickens arrives in the United States in November of 1867, he's already in questionable health. So by the end of the trip, he was really in failing condition, and really, he would never recover completely after this point, and you could sort of draw a straight line to his ultimate decline and death.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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I can't re-define music every week!
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I think people are often surprised, but I never defined myself as, 'I'm the business guy who has to supersede what my father has done.'
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We will host the Asean summit in November this year. It will be an occasion to reflect on our achievements collectively and to look at how Asean can maintain its leading role in regional and international cooperation.
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I worked with him for years. I still think Kanye [West] is one of the most important people in music in the last ten years.