Alex Scally Quotes
We almost don't want to play bigger shows than where we are now. It's kind of perfect.
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I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.
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My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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I feel comfortable any position I play. It doesn't matter.
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I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
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For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.
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I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
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What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
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I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
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I'm learning every day.
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That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on the fact that we were creatures of the margin and of alienation.
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If you're clever enough and creative enough to get a good film made, then you should be clever enough and creative enough to find ways to get it out there, one being something like Jameson First Shot.
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My parents are from the South - they were both born in Birmingham - so my dad saw R.E.M. really early on when they were playing college stuff in Athens. He had a bunch of their cassettes from the '80s, and when I was 8, 9, or 10, those were the sort of things that were around the cassette player in the living room.
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The culture is eating nature; it's overpowering storytelling. Movies are turning into games - it's abut the image, not nuance.
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Why should one U.S. airman give up his life when our national security is not in imminent danger?
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I take having a kids' show real seriously. I think it's an enormous responsibility.
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Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That's always essential to me.
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If you absolutely can't tolerate critics, then don't do anything new or interesting.
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We almost don't want to play bigger shows than where we are now. It's kind of perfect.
