Alan Weisman Quotes
For years, I have been looking for a way to look at the whole global environmental situation, which I have the privilege and burden of covering. And I wanted to give people a way to do something about it.
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For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.
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I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
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I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
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I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.
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I don't look at myself as a Scream Queen, and I don't plan on continuing on this genre route. If anything, I want to go very different places.
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Balancing my career between two industries has never been an issue. I started with a Telugu film and have a soft corner for the south industry, though I've grown up speaking Hindi. I don't think language can be a barrier when it comes to acting. And, since I come from a theatre background, I'm used to memorizing my lines.
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I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.
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I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!
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I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.
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I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
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I'm totally myself.
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There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.
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The only way we are going to reduce disease, is to go backward to the diets and lifestyles of our ancestors.
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I'm a fan of action movies.
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Make it simple to last your whole life long. Don't worry that it's not enough for anyone else to hear. Just sing, sing a song...
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For years, I have been looking for a way to look at the whole global environmental situation, which I have the privilege and burden of covering. And I wanted to give people a way to do something about it.
