Alonso Duralde Quotes
Even before I started going to movies, I loved the idea of them. When I started learning to read as a kid, I started reading the movie pages in the paper and I could tell you what was showing at every theater within a ten mile radius of our house.
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.
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I went to a Christian school, and as a kid, we weren't allowed to really watch anything violent, even 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.'
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People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
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But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.
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I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me.
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Gerard Butler is like a big kid; he's so nice.
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When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.
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There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.
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When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.
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I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
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I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.
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I've always been excited at the idea of performing a solo show.
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I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
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If you're in the idea business, it doesn't matter where you're from. It matters if we care about the change you're making.
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You don't want to try to protect yourself from the pain of a crisis. You want to learn everything you can from it.
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To dance with a man is to concentrate a twelvemonth's regulation fire upon him in the fragment of an hour. To pass to courtship without acquaintance, to pass to marriage without courtship, is a skipping of terms reserved for those alone who tread this royal road.
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My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past.
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Even before I started going to movies, I loved the idea of them. When I started learning to read as a kid, I started reading the movie pages in the paper and I could tell you what was showing at every theater within a ten mile radius of our house.
