Alfian Sa'at Quotes
If you care too much about Singapore, first it'll break your spirit, and finally it will break your heart.
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I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.
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We don't exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their environment. Our interests are not perfectly aligned with theirs, and it turns out it's not easy to get interests aligned.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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We need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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I'd done a ton of movies here in Hollywood, and I realized that every movie I'd done was somebody's else's work and someone else's vision.
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Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.
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I think all girls in the world wish they were a Parisian girl - that sort of effortless chic confidence and comfort in their own skin.
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There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.
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Being on set with my dad - that's so cool. People always ask me if that made me nervous, but it's the same element when you're a kid - when your parents come in the auditorium for those school performances. It calms you.
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I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.
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I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.
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I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.
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We can't all be like Ryan Seacrest... the perfect platform manifestation of a human. I don't know if we all have those gifts for restraining our emotions... or whatever it is he does.
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I only want my work to make people happy.
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I have a checkered past. I'll take any eyeliner that comes my way.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.
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If you care too much about Singapore, first it'll break your spirit, and finally it will break your heart.
