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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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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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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I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.
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We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.
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Marvin Gaye is an inspiration to me. He was one of the first Motown musicians that my mom and dad introduced me to, and I always thought it would be a good idea if I was ever an artist, and now I am, to make a record called 'Marvin Gaye.'
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We have a responsibility to help those around us and help others in need.
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I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen.
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In terms of addressing some of the most impacted communities and historically excluded communities - often of color, often low income - there is this adage in specifically African American communities that on every corner in low income neighborhoods you'll find a liquor store.
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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.
