Alex Hammond (Alex Quinn) Quotes

People outside the documentary world don't realize how time-consuming making a documentary film is there is a lot of responsibility, and in order to make something good you need time.

Alex Hammond

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• Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.

  

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• Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.

  

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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 view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.

  

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• What really matters is what's on the inside.

  

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• There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the periods when we are least able to pay for them.

  

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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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• I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.

  

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• No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.

  

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• I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.

  

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• The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.

  

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• Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

  

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• You just keep moving forward and doing what you do and hope that it resonates with people. And if it doesn't, you just keep moving on until you find a project that does.

  

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• Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.

  

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• If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.

  

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• Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.

  

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• Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

  

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• I wanted to be a ballet teacher.

  

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• People outside the documentary world don't realize how time-consuming making a documentary film is there is a lot of responsibility, and in order to make something good you need time.

  

  Alex Hammond
  • Responsibility
  • Film
  • Documentary