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 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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I always look for my mistakes so I can correct them in the future.
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One of the key ingredients of coexistence and successful cooperation is trust.
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I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.
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Never stop listening to your audience.
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I have a hard time recalling the titles of books.
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An unhappy childhood was not an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.
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While Donald Trump believes in huge tax breaks for billionaires, he believes that states should actually have the right to lower the minimum wage below $7.25. What an outrage!
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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.
