Alberto Del Rio Quotes
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I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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The coolest part about 'God Made Girls' is you had all these different women writing it, so you had all these different perspectives in this song.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.
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The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.
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We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
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When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.
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The American dream seems to be thriving in Europe not at home.
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I think several generations of my family had novels in the drawer. You know the montage in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' where each character has produced some sort of minor work? It was like having a magician in the household.
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Coming up, the music of my era was very conscious. I grew up on Public Enemy, and it was popular culture to be aware. People were wearing Malcolm X T-shirts and Malcolm X hats. It was a very cool thing to know who Malcolm X was. It was all in the lyrics. It was trendy to be conscious and aware.
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I like boring golf. That's kind of what butters my bread.
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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
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Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
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The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.
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Laurence felt a weird combination of shame and rage, as though he'd grown another new body part just in time to get punched in it.
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Each of my paintings is a cycle. It’s like existence, life. They are always in motion.. .If they were fixed and static, they would be false.
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It was also a new role for me as a writer, because I wanted to just be there to serve Sam. I recognized that this picture would be "a Sam Fuller movie," and I was just trying, in whatever way I could, to help him get what he wanted.
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The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.
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Pro wrestling has always been my passion. I always wanted to be a pro wrestler.
