Alex Abreu Quotes

The way a film is made tells you about its message. The processes are the same as the products. We made the film starting from processes that allowed us to find these complex ideas.

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• Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Why
  • Hate

• Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Long
  • Hand
  • Watch

• Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Body
  • Model
  • Walking

• What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Great
  • Success
  • Perfect

• In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • World
  • Job
  • Jealous

• My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • School
  • May
  • Father

• It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Why
  • Know
  • Question

• As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Reading
  • Human
  • Survival

• Don't go in and tell somebody else how to run their business.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Business
  • Run
  • Tell

• The white man, in his press, is going to identify me with 'hate.'

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Hate
  • Me

• I've always loved film, and it started with Pixar movies.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Film
  • Movies
  • Loved

• Affirmative action has been generally cast in terms of race. I think women themselves are not as cognizant of the role affirmative action has played in opening the doors for women.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Women
  • Think
  • Action

• In my time, I experienced a black man not being able to be the quarterback of a football team.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Time
  • Man
  • Black

• There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just makes the job so much - maybe 'easier' isn't the right word, but because you know your boundaries, you can just play within those boundaries much more, so it's much more fun to do.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Yourself

• I was raised Jewish and fully embrace the core beliefs of Judaism - the ones that I identify as core beliefs, which are essentially freedom and justice. But the supernatural aspects of religion were never important to me.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Important
  • Freedom
  • Justice

• Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Love
  • Values
  • For Her

• I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Writing
  • Moving
  • Puzzle

• Living with a stammer is difficult. It's a daily uphill struggle with emotional baggage weighing you down. You can't be the person you want to be.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Want
  • Struggle
  • Emotional

• We will never have peace in the world until men everywhere recognize that ends are not cut off from means, because the means represent the ideal in the making, and the end in process, and ultimately you can't reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Peace
  • Process
  • Represent

• GIS is being influenced by and integrating with all kinds of new innovations such as faster computing, big data, the cloud, smart devices, and distributed processing.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Smart
  • Data
  • Cloud

• I am a sufferer of endometriosis. I didn't want any young women to go through what I went through. I thought that people should know about it.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Women
  • Sufferer
  • Endometriosis

• ....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Difficulty
  • Acquire
  • Princes

• The way a film is made tells you about its message. The processes are the same as the products. We made the film starting from processes that allowed us to find these complex ideas.

  

  Alex Abreu
  • Ideas
  • Film
  • Process