Alec Sulkin Quotes
Hearing the faraway sounds of children at recess makes me understand that I am no longer life's main character.
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.
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All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.
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I like to play board games a lot with my girl, things like that. We attempt to cook. And even if it goes wrong, it doesn't matter because it's the time you spend doing it that's important.
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With Ferrari sometimes, you win or you lose depending on what the mood of the team in general, of the group in general.
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Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.
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It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.
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I definitely have a strong sense of my Jewish and Israeli identity. I did my two-year military service; I was brought up in a very Jewish, Israeli family environment, so of course my heritage is very important to me.
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The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
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There are a lot of people getting killed by guns in our country for reasons, from my understanding, that are preventable. So many guns that are left loaded, unlocked. So you can educate. That doesn't seem to be too controversial - education.
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Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.
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I've seen people talk about how they stopped polio, that was a generation that came together and said, "Let's do this." I think in the AIDS community we've become so complacent in that, it's like we just plateaued... We've completely neglected a whole young generation that is now highly infected.
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I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.
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When I'm in a tricky situation I often think: 'What would Beyonce do?' It helps.
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A lot of my friends who I wrote or produced songs for came back and helped me make 'Pages.' It's better than I ever could have imagined.
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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Hearing the faraway sounds of children at recess makes me understand that I am no longer life's main character.
