Alex Scarrow Quotes
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I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.
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Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!
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I love wearing my hair curly, but turning the curling iron all the way up creates curls that look really made up and artificial.
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Entertainment has this way of resetting itself.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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I've now been in over 100 adverts for Walkers, and we've had a lot of laughs along the way.
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You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.
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Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well.
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Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do.
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One of my favorite cartoon characters is Snoopy. I love the way he sits and lies on his kennel and contemplates the great things of life.
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Obviously I'd love to work with any of these great directors because every time I've worked with them I've gained a tremendous amount as an actor. Each director has his own way of pushing you towards improving yourself.
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When you discover the wonder of giving, you will wonder how you could have lived so long in any other way.
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There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type.
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All this flying around got on my nerves. But then I gave the script to Cathy to get her opinion. When she started to laugh, it was like 'That's it!'. I went to LA and I got the part.
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I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.
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We all die eventually. But the one thing we can do is seek answers along the way.
