Alan Villiers Quotes
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
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Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.
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If you go to prison, your child support adds up.
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I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.
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I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.
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A. R. Rahman is truly India's Mozart. His music is celebrated worldwide.
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With their propagandistic frame of mind, feminist leaders never admitted that their opponents could be equally motivated by ethics.
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You have got to be able to picture side by side everything Matisse and I were doing at that time. No one has ever looked at Matisse's painting more carefully than I; and no one has looked at mine more carefully than he.
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I think living well is the key: trying not to build up regrets for the things we didn't do in our lives; to try to live a regret-free life in which we feel satisfied in what we're doing; and to try to be kind to ourselves and not disappointed in ourselves.
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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
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'Genes, Girls, and Gamow' was an attempt, even more than 'The Double Helix,' to mix science with one's personal life. With 'The Double Helix,' no one had done it before, but I thought I'd try.
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My style of fighting is to go down and trying to finish the guy and trying to end fights, not laying up because I'm winning the fight, just keep going after it.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
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I can't sleep with my make-up on. There is something about it. It doesn't matter what time it is; I just can't do it.
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I'll always have acting. But then if I had to choose something else it'd probably be singing or dancing - if I had to. Or maybe, like, designer, like sketching designs.
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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
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The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art
