Albert Hadley Quotes
Design is coming to grips with one’s real lifestyle, one’s real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for show but to nourish one’s wellbeing.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?
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I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.
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I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that.
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My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
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Whether you're making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, there's never enough time.
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I really like working, the opportunity to work with good people and to play interesting parts.
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Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me – if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring.
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I don't write women who are weak or simpering.
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First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
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There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
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You must read Plato. But you must hold him at arm's length and say, 'Plato, you have delighted and edified mankind for two thousand years. What have you to say to me?'
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Putin is slouching…looking like that bored schoolboy in the back of the classroom.
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But as our explanation will be more brief than one broken in upon by words of wonder, regret, and affection, we will proceed to it ; holding that explanation, like advice, should be of all convenient shortness.
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In 1998, I was screening 'Good Will Hunting' at Camp David. And I was saying, 'Nice to meet you, Mr. President. Nice to meet you, Mrs. Clinton.' Madeleine Albright, Sandy Berger, Senator Daschle. It was an extraordinary day.
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I'm trying to move a little more toward literary fiction while still retaining a popular feel.
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It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.
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The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.
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Design is coming to grips with one’s real lifestyle, one’s real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for show but to nourish one’s wellbeing.
