Alexander Gardner Quotes
My work is designed to speak for itself. as mementos of the fearful struggle through which the country has just passed, it is confidently hoped that it will possess an enduring interest.
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I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
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By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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For people to even think that I'd be considered or a good candidate for a supporting actress nomination is mind blowing to me.
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It's a strange thing we do as actors. I'm walking out the door, and I'll say, 'O.K., honey, I'm off to take my clothes off.'
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TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.
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Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.
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Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
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Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.
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I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.
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As Ralph's character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That's the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul.
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Ownership is a very complex judicial concept.
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Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born.
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Unlike Texas Rangers, we actors don't have a stop date, so I don't know about retiring. Sometimes I want to stop acting, but then you get a good script!
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I was desperately shy when I was wee. Totally lacked confidence socially. When I look back at school photographs, I'm always the one shrinking in the back. What I really wanted to do was become a writer, and I don't think the residue of that has ever gone away. I still feel the ultimate achievement would be to write a novel.
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The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is; conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is.
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My work is designed to speak for itself. as mementos of the fearful struggle through which the country has just passed, it is confidently hoped that it will possess an enduring interest.
