Alexander Wilson Quotes
Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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We do a lot of outbound work where we're talking about the future. As we get involved with these new products, it helps us have a platform to talk about where the future is going.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.
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The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.
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Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture.
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I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.
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I would say divorce, breaking up, being a child of divorce, any of those things are always very challenging.
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I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with... collars, neck collars.
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Pussycat, pussycat,You're so thrilling and I'm so willingto care for you.So go and make up you big little pussy cat eyes.
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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The 'Stephanie Plums' are very much Jersey books. So you can't get away from attitude and objectionable language.
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Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.
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I pretend that I was never in the movies. The only job I had before was selling prawns door to door. That's what I tell myself. My kids have never seen my films. I'm too embarrassed to show them.
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I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can.I guess I was maybe in little league baseball as far as I wanted to be good at that. But school, I certainly wasn't the best at that.
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In 2016, one of the things I really hope to do is discover new talent and help develop it. Take what I've learned and what I can do and help amplify those voices.
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Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it.
