Alexander Masters Quotes
I wish I could pick you up sometimes, turn you upside down, shake all the bad things out of your head, and put you back up the right way again.
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All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
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I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.
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You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.
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To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.
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I have lived a carnal life.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
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I want to try everything.
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Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice.
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The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
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My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.
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You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one.
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I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
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I will come to know when my time's up, and when it is, I will exit gracefully. I will not hang around till I am kicked out.
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There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won't allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have supported me and who I have known since I was 12. They are still the same and they don't treat me any different.
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You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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I wish I could pick you up sometimes, turn you upside down, shake all the bad things out of your head, and put you back up the right way again.
