Alex Stapleton Quotes
I think being really open to this new world of online and what it means to be online. Also, understanding that maybe it's time to let go of the 90-minute experience and realize that all of the content that comes on top of the 90-minute film experience, that there's a lot of that, especially with documentaries.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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I am pretty self-indulgent.
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To be an ideal guest, stay at home.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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I'm very fortunate. I have a wonderful family, lots of hobbies and athletic pursuits. I always wanted to have a very well-rounded life.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
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I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people round for dinner. When you travel a lot, you feel rootless and adrift - this is my sanctuary, where I can breathe out.
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You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
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Women who have abortions are people you know. Because that is the truth! One in three American women will have an abortion by menopause.
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I think people will believe anything about someone they haven't seen for a while.
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I believe God put that desire inside of all of us so that we can evaluate ourselves in the light of His Word in order to become all that He created us to be.
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
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I wish my mother could have seen the America we’re going to build together. An America, where if you do your part, you reap the rewards. Where we don’t leave anyone out, or anyone behind. An America where a father can tell his daughter: yes, you can be anything you want to be. Even President of the United States.
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The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.
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It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
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The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.
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I've taught a college journalism course at two universities where my students taught me more than I did them about how political news is consumed.
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I am disabled, so I can't travel, and I have not been to any development meetings, but Gary and the others affiliated with the film keep me updated on everything.
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I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.
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I think being really open to this new world of online and what it means to be online. Also, understanding that maybe it's time to let go of the 90-minute experience and realize that all of the content that comes on top of the 90-minute film experience, that there's a lot of that, especially with documentaries.
