Alex Webb Quotes
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A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I like being unconventional.
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Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.
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Our past is who we are, and death is one of our experiences. I lost my husband a long time ago, but it's always yesterday.
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It's a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention.
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I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
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I'm realistic about my career as a novelist. I'm certainly not a superstar and far, far from a household name, but I feel successful.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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I needed to feed my family. I read a couple of the episodes. How can you keep on doing the same thing?
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Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?
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We are carrying these images out into the world, and we can't control how people contextualize those images no matter how virtuous our aspirations and our intentions are.
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I'm trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.
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To a certain extent what I do is play with the world, but it's disciplined play.
