Alec Sulkin Quotes
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.
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We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.
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Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.
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Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him.
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No carelessness in your actions. No confusion in your words. No imprecision in your thoughts. (Hays translation)
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20 years on I'm not that interested in charity. I'm interested in justice. There's a difference. Africa needs justice as much as it needs charity. Equality for Africa is a big idea. It's a big expensive idea.
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Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
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I don't have a problem with stepped-up surveillance as long as we follow the rule of law.
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Of course, you have always the goal for years to go there and to reach the top, but then if you are there, you actually don't know what to expect.
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Finding joy is probably tantamount to finding yourself and being comfortable in your own skin.
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All thouhgts of grandeur were delusions...until one made them real.
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Nobody would have me in their laboratory for five minutes. I couldn't cut up a frog, and I certainly couldn't perform surgery. I'm better at making it possible for other people.
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I had a really good time working with Jim Cameron. A lot of people didn't, but I did as I got on with him really quite well. For a director who spends most of his time looking down a lens or in the digitisation studio or working out some graphics, he is actually very good with actors.
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It's always dangerous when boring people think they're creative.
