Alexandra Potter Quotes
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Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
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We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.
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The more questions and answers we get, the more useful Quora is.
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The sad thing is that apparently if you want to become the next Premier or the leader, suddenly you've got to shut down your human side.
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If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.
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In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.
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I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
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A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.
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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.
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I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
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Camp Southern Ground is a lot more than a camp. It's more of a campus.
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.
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You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.
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As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
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We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.
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I like to see a tidy shop, and I want to see my investments well managed.
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I don't have any bone to pick with critics. In fact, if I wasn't a filmmaker I would probably be a film critic. Most of my bone is I would be a better film critic than most of the film critics I read.
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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
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I looked at my parents when I was 17, and I said, 'I'm moving to L.A.'
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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
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Why is it that when you discover you can't have something, you want it even more?
