Alan Charles Korsun Quotes
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I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.
Patricia Clarkson -
Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?
Patrick deWitt -
As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.
Mackenzie Davis -
I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!
Natasha Henstridge -
I think beautiful independent films are made, and I think they're as close to what theater can be because they're not loaded with all of the extra stuff. It's human, and it's more organic, but theater is very unique... It's a different connection altogether.
Sam Underwood
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Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.
Rachel Swirsky -
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
Ornette Coleman -
I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too... genue. My career has completely happened since I was 29.
Olivia Williams -
Nothing is taken lightly in 'The Hunger Games.'
Natalie Dormer -
Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
A. J. P. Taylor -
Is it two? Three? Leave a good tip, Imma blow all my money and don't give two shits.
Nicki Minaj
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I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.
A.M. Homes -
I keep moving through time and time keeps moving through me. And through that process, life takes shape. The question is what shape it is. I'm not the first person to ask that question, or to see how absurd it is to think there's a real answer. Maybe life's a circle.
Questlove -
Synergy is the driver. There are two levels of synergy: there are operating synergies, which, you know, you'd have to be stupid not to try to take advantage of, and then there are strategic synergies. In other words, in what positions you would be more sustainable, more long term, and so on.
John C. Malone -
One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.
Vivien Leigh -
Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Here's three on's are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.
William Shakespeare -
Apollo has peeped through the shutter, And awaken'd the witty and fair; The boarding-school belle's in a flutter, The twopenny post's in despair; The breath of the morning is flinging A magic on blossom and spray, And cockneys and sparrows are singing In chorus on Valentine's day.
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
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As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.
Paul Auster -
I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it.
Raul Castro -
Socialism with authentic, political power must lead to tyranny and cruelty.
Alan Charles Korsun