Sal Albanese Quotes
I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
Quotes to Explore
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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I think the greatest privilege you have as an artist is time to nurture what you want to make; that's super luxurious. For you to rush into something, that doesn't feel fun to me. I'm living life in order to be able to write about it.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.
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I went around Coimbatore quite often while I was shooting for Velayudham. It's a fascinating place with a lot of energy.
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Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.
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I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision.
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I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
