Alfred Lansing Quotes
I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'
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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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India remains one of the few nations which still focuses entirely on an archaic de-addiction model, administered by the ministry of social justice and empowerment, to address drinking problems, adhering to a centuries-old idea of these problems being a moral disorder rather than a health condition.
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The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.
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I rode a shark once. I wouldn't recommend it. It was fun, but I thought I was going to get eaten the entire time! Nothing against sharks. I love sharks. I just don't think we are meant to ride them.
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As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.
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A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
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The same was true of the most popular girls. They had no empathy, no compassion for more normal kids.
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I feel sorry for human resource people nowadays. HR is marginalized. No one really pays much attention to what's going on in HR and HR struggles with the fact that what is prevalent in America today is job boards, huge databases that we use to recruit and hire people.
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Only one time in my career I had that feeling [that this is not gonna get made], it was for this movie [Life of Pi]. It was right before we started the physical pre-production. I pre-visualized the whole ocean part before we made the movie, I was that prepared. At one point they seemed to want to drop it because it was really risky. The budget we proposed was a lot higher than they expected, they wanted to [drop it]. After all, it's a philosophical book and a literature property, it's not Batman.
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You know I'll kiss you for my supper. Yeah, you know I'll kiss you for my dinner, baby.
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I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable.
