Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Quotes
The fun of directing for me, other than working with the actors, is trying to extract those ideas that you have in your head and make them real.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I wake up at about 9 a.m., and have a few hours of school or time to relax. Then, I have practice at 2:30 p.m. with my team.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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Do I believe in coupling? Do I believe in commitment? Do I believe in co-parenting, raising children together, having a family, and growing old with someone? I absolutely believe in all of those things. I just don't believe that you need to be married to do that. I love going to weddings, though. I do love a good wedding.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.
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Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
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The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
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India has the capability to create a fairly extensive defence manufacturing capability in many areas, and as a country and as an industry, we have matured in terms of technology and capability to make this happen.
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No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
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There are a lot of critics out there, a lot of people that you want to prove wrong. But that's what your hard work is for in the offseason, spending hours and hours in the gym.
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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I don't think one film is enough to showcase your talent or to show your abilities as an actor.
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I'm obsessed with New York. I want to marry it, maybe bear a few children with 42nd Street.
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The people of Shishmaref want their community to survive, but they are holding on to their legacy by a very delicate thread indeed. The threat of their land disappearing is only the beginning.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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Obviously, when you can defend your title it shows how good of an athlete you are. And to do it by beating the No. 1 seed is impressive.
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I'm still pulled over... We were nominated for two Oscars for 'Monster's Ball,' and I almost didn't make the Oscars because I got pulled over in Beverly Hills.
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We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.
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The fun of directing for me, other than working with the actors, is trying to extract those ideas that you have in your head and make them real.
