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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That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
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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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Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.
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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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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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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.
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I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.
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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.
