Alexander Weinstein Quotes
The problems we have with our current technology often reveal our own human foibles, and it's these new emotions of cyberspace which reveal our struggles.
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Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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Home is where one starts from.
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It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.
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Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
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You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles.
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All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.
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I've been listening to a lot of music by Arca.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I do, it's just for fun. It is actually a hobby for me now. I do still love stage acting, but the day-to-day process of being an actor is so exhausting and so taxing.
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I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn't working. I wasn't being myself. What I should have done was say. 'Girls, it's really time for me to go on my own. I need to fulfill this dream of mine to have a solo album.' And I didn't know how to do that. I wanted to please them.
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What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.
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I'm proud to be part of the fabric that inspires the next generations to remain curious and remember that 'smart is cool.'
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My family didn't have money to travel, so reading was how I knew about the world. It made me hungry to have more experiences than just what I could possibly experience in Arkansas.
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I just go out and play my best tennis.
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We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.
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I hate chapped lips.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.
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The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.
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I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house.
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The problems we have with our current technology often reveal our own human foibles, and it's these new emotions of cyberspace which reveal our struggles.
