Alex Kotlowitz Quotes
Her hope—and mine—was that a book about the children would make us all hear, that it would make us all stop and listen.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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I'm a slow starter.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'
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I'm going to always bleed the red, white, and blue. I represented the U.S. in the Olympics; I love my country. But the U.S. fans will love you on Monday; if you lose, they'll hate you on Tuesday. If you win, it will be back to loving you on Wednesday.
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I've been at it since 1967, and I still love it. There is nothing quite like making people laugh.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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I am so disturbed by kids who spend all day playing videogames.
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Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
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I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.
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I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.
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I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries – to their feet or their knees or their backs.
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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I'm sort of a gay man trapped in a woman's body when it comes to music sometimes - it's crowded in here!
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Scripts don't get movies made.
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The people who were marching at Peggy O'Hara's funeral gave the impression they were associated with the INLA, which is supposed to be on ceasefire and to have decommissioned some of their weapons. I ask if they could have honoured her in a more dignified way.
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A film shoot usually wraps up in a couple of months. But television shoots involve longer hours of work.
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Businesses operating in fragile or conflict-affected environments bear a responsibility to, at the very minimum, do no harm and avoid fuelling conflict or reinforcing fragility.
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Her hope—and mine—was that a book about the children would make us all hear, that it would make us all stop and listen.
