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.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Society

• 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.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Sad
  • Right
  • Very

• 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.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Up
  • Control
  • Environment

• 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.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Road
  • First
  • River

• We need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Understand
  • Innovation
  • Top

• So the storm passed and every one was happy.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Happy
  • Storm
  • Passed

• If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Work
  • Creative
  • Same

• In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • More
  • Media
  • Social Media

• 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.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Work
  • Done
  • Movie

• 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.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • World
  • Girl
  • Wish

• There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Gay
  • Victim
  • Places

• 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.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • People
  • School
  • Parents

• I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Think
  • Acting
  • Method

• I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Sexy

• I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Work
  • Boy
  • Talent

• 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.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Know
  • Perfect
  • Emotions

• The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Road
  • Discovery
  • Intellect

• The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Woman
  • Display
  • Invasion

• At the office where the paper grows, she takes a break, drinks another coffee, and she finds it hard to stay awake. It's just another day.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Work
  • Coffee
  • Break

• Like everyone is either, "I grew up with it," or "I loved it," or loved them now. And when you watch The Muppet Movie now, it is so current. It's like The Simpsons before The Simpsons. It's not as cynical as The Simpsons would be but it's self-aware and there are a billion jokes, it breaks the fourth wall every five minutes, it's astounding, it's awesome. It's very exciting to be a part of that.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • Wall
  • Break
  • Exciting

• If you care too much about Singapore, first it'll break your spirit, and finally it will break your heart.

  

  Alfian Sa'at
  • Care
  • Spirit
  • Break