Alan Palomo Quotes
I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle, and sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.
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Apple's advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn't excellent, it does the superlative hardware a disservice.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
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I'd love to make a thriller.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.
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I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.
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According to our estimates, the Hungarians working in the U.K. altogether pay more contributions and taxes than the benefits that they get. So we belong to the world of the fair working people.
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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
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The reason behind Hrithik being the best dancer is that he never takes his work for granted.
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Americans are cool; if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right.' Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.
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I don't own a scale, and Tao banned the word 'fat' from our house. If we eat too much, we say, 'I feel clogged up.'
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It never crossed my mind to be a director, and I'll tell you why: because I'm a woman. It just didn't occur to me, but I knew I had to be in film.
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Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
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I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.
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You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.
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In monarchy the crime of treason may admit of being pardoned or lightly punished, but the man who dares rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death.
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I'm not the most accomplished of writers out there, but I feel that I quite effective all the same.
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Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.
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Only utopian liberals could be surprised that the Nazis were art connoisseurs.
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We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with seeing if there's a crazy writer out there who agrees with us and can take it to a crazy network and somehow bring something that's a little bit daft and edgy to life.
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I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle, and sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.
