Alex Scarrow Quotes
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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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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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On a certain level, I don't think there is an answer to what the American way is, because it is constantly being re-defined. It's also been exploited and capitalized upon and politicized by one side or the other to the point that a certain degree of cynicism has attached itself to that term.
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The only way to advertise is by not focusing on the product.
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I never wanted to take the easy way, and I was always willing to hustle.
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Kids don't come with an instruction manual. So if you're gonna make mistakes, at least make them your own way.
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Iran has the opportunity now to address the clear concerns of the IAEA, and the lack of confidence in Iran's nuclear intentions.
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I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them... but not us.
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I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.
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We all die eventually. But the one thing we can do is seek answers along the way.
