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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People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.
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People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.
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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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Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.
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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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We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
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All my high school papers were written in the rare book room.
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The demographic of our audience is young. It also contains a high proportion of black, Jewish and gay people, who have all been encouraged by society to think of themselves as oddities or mutants. I hope that's why X-Men chimes with them - it's certainly why I was attracted to the idea in the first place.
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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.
