Alex Abreu Quotes
We were in another planet and we were reaching for something closer to a fable. It was something fabulous. I started looking at the film as if it happened in another planet and that allowed me even more freedom.
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When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.
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All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
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I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.
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The verdict of the world is conclusive.
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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.
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I am a fiscal conservative.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
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To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.
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The American system is, in many ways, more difficult, certainly far more expensive and much longer than a parliamentary system, and I really admire the people who subject themselves to it. Even when I, you know, think they should not be elected president, I still think, well, you know, good for you I guess, you're out there promoting democracy and those crazy ideas of yours.
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As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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It was always my intention to direct. I went to film school. And then I wanted to know how to work with actors, so I went to acting school. And then by the end of that, I caught the bug.
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We were in another planet and we were reaching for something closer to a fable. It was something fabulous. I started looking at the film as if it happened in another planet and that allowed me even more freedom.
