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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The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.
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When I hear the word "documentary," I don't think certain things should be left out. You've got to keep it 100 percent as much as you can, unless your group has a meeting beforehand and says, "Yo -- don't say this, 'cause boom, boom, boom." Other than that, it's a documentary so let's document, you know what I mean?
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When I was in high school. I was considered really weird and strange, and people kind of kept their distance.
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I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed.
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And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting.
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The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art
