Alexis Taylor Quotes
When you're making the record, you're not thinking about an audience, but you still need them and you want them.
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If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of my favorite shows.
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Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
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British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.
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The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.
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Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.
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I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?
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All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.
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I love rock n' rollers.
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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I think there is an army clock ticking in me. I value time. I always want to be on time. I don't complain about things, saying, 'There is no caravan here,' etc. For example, they could only arrange a tent on the location of 'Pareshanu Raa'. I understand the importance of money. I respect my work a lot. Not that I am the only one who works hard.
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When I'm writing, I mean what I'm saying - there's a lot of me in each song.
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Hollywood forgets easily. I want to be fulfilled and challenged.
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I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.
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That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
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Was it possible? She had taken me with her hoping that as a punishment my parents would not send me to middle school? Or had she brought me back in such a hurry so that I would avoid punishment? Or - I wonder today - did she want at different moments both things?
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Since I train instinctively and listen to my body, I have no set routine. I very much train by feel.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.
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When you're making the record, you're not thinking about an audience, but you still need them and you want them.
