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 wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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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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I feel like fashion and music relate to each other in a lot of ways. I always had to be creative: I'm a very creative person. I always liked making stuff. Apart from music, I always liked making clothes. You're able to express yourself.
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A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.
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Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling – I can so well remember it. There was always something more – behind and beyond everything – to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.
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I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.
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My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that.
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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.
