Alexander Sutherland Neill Quotes
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Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
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You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
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I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life.
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I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
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Career had a lot to do with 80 percent of my breakups. It's very tough to date a struggling musician. The idea of it is enticing and fun and mysterious. But the reality is long hours and hard work. I have a lot of respect for the women I've dated.
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I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
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When I got recognized as a writer, when I got the Emmy, I was more excited than the Emmys I had gotten as an actor.
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I don't call cut between the takes - it's my way to help the actor keep focused. As soon as you say 'cut' you have 10 people jumping on them and everybody's trying to do a great job, and they do, but sometimes they forget that the more important thing is the performance, creating the performance.
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For a person to have a contented life, they have to find something that challenges them and respond to it…
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I just want to not be me.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference.