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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In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.
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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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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
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You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.
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The problem is that people really just don't care and they have been "educated" not to care about the monetary system: that it's boring, it's difficult to understand, we need to have high minded people like "Greenscum" and Bernanke to do things like this (and don't forget Volker, there's the whole cast of them). The thing is that people have been educated or miseducated or brainwashed into believing that this is wayyyy too complicated for regular people to understand and that we need to let PhD economists guide us along in terms of what's right... and that's all bull.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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I don't care what my children choose to do professionally, just as long as within their choices they understand they've got to give something back.
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If you care too much about Singapore, first it'll break your spirit, and finally it will break your heart.
