Alecko Eskandarian Quotes
The headgear thing's great. It's like a headband, so it's not heavy or anything like that at all. I was able to do everything fine.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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It was only after university that I said to myself that I had to take the risk and have a serious go at acting. It's such a bizarre profession, because you have to be totally tough to deal with all those times when you're being turned down, and then really soft in order to access your character's emotions.
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TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points.
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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I survived because I never took on big responsibilities in my private life. In the early days, I lived on two or three pounds a week and learned to cook - and I'm a good cook - because I had to. Even when I went on holiday, I stayed in other people's houses.
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When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.
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I am obsessed with John Mayer. I love him. I just think he's so talented. I have his documentary in my iTunes. I watch it all the time.
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Are men and women different creatures? Do we feel things differently? Being a man, I can't know what a woman feels.
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I hope girls read what I say in interviews - they should just be themselves.
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Much of good science - and perhaps all of great science - has its roots in fantasy.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Men out of fear will cling to the thing they most fear.
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It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity.
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I like to make things, but I looked at old craft books on weaving or mosaics or whatever, I'm like, 'I don't really know anything about that stuff.'
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I think people know what they're getting with my name, because they've seen my specials on Netflix.
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Be known as a great resource. Are you an Excel genius? An expert on local restaurants? Fabulous at proofreading? Go beyond your job description by being an open resource for others in the company who could benefit from your talents. I believe that paying it forward will serve you well one way or another in the future.
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After each game, I want to be able to say: I gave it all I could, I gave it my best.
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I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.
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The headgear thing's great. It's like a headband, so it's not heavy or anything like that at all. I was able to do everything fine.
