Alex Kotlowitz Quotes
People have a capacity to keep going even when their world has been shattered. We all long for connection, for affirmation that our lives matter.
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The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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Sometimes my schedule doesn't allow time to go to the hotel after I get off the plane, so I bring my Freebird boots or my old school Adidas shell-toes to throw on after I land.
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Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.
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If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.
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I'm the only gay person my parents know.
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The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me – from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood.
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I like fighters who come to fight.
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I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepare myself.
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On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
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Colour is really important to me when buying clothes. I wear a lot of fitted jackets, and because I'm small, I avoid long skirts and coats. And I hate wearing hats.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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Animals are not just herbivores or carnivores. They are, in the nice coinage of the psychologist George Miller, informavores.
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The scariest thing is to go into a new situation for myself, and yet I have a job where I do that every few months, meet a hundred new people, and then have to perform in a very highly pressurized environment.
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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
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You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.
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Love - is when you wish all the best to the people you love, when you put their interests and well-being above their own. Always.
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People have a capacity to keep going even when their world has been shattered. We all long for connection, for affirmation that our lives matter.
