Alan Hirsch Quotes
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I've actually done a lot of comedy.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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I was very quiet at college and had a certain group of friends.
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I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.
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When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
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The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
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I'm trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.
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Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.
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I sort of fall apart in terms of stamina after about 25 minutes!
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I learn my songs by ear.
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You are never really prepared for criticism.
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Every home that I have is paid for, every car that I have is paid for, and I am a hundred-million-dollar man. I mean, this is the truth; it's not a lie.
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I've got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think through their decisions about products, about partners, about hiring. But in the end, the decisions are theirs, and so is the responsibility.
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I would really love to play a superhero. That is definitely up there on my list. Captain Marvel especially. That would be so cool.
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My brother Art was a doo-wopper. He had a group that sat out on a park bench in New Orleans and sang harmonies at night, and they'd go around and win all the talent shows and get all the girls, you know.
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My make-up artist, she uses bronzer on the eyelids too. And also a little bit on the forehead to make everything look even.
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You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.
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Film lovers are sick people.
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I always finish off my look with a spritz of Vera Wang Pink Princess.
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Law and its instrument, government, are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us, but all of us, unless we live the lives of mud turtles, frequently find them arrayed against us.
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As a community we are living way beyond our means
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
