Alex Atala Quotes
The most powerful social media... it is not the internet, it is not Facebook - it is food. This connects all human beings.
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I am the guardian of power, not its owner.
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I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
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I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
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Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater.
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I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune with the workings of the aether. I could sense the nuances of dreamscapes and rogue spirits. Things outside myself. Things the average voyant wouldn't feel.
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Being a teenager is hard.
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I read everything by Ian McEwan, he is so elegant. I love reading anything about Shakespeare, too. He is my first love. If I had a time machine, I would be hanging out with him.
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I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.
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I just don't have this magnetic personality that everyone is drawn to. I don't make friends easily... I'm just not one of those people.
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Books are my weakness.
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Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.
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I've always thought of myself as a journalist; that was what I did.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
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With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.
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The most powerful social media... it is not the internet, it is not Facebook - it is food. This connects all human beings.
