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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I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no.
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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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The first thing I learned about weapons is respect, and that carries into movies as well. If you're on set and you're dealing with weapons, live or not, you respect the weapon; you know how to handle it appropriately.
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My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.
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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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On tight money: It reflects a reversion to the old idea that the tree can be fertilized at the top instead of at the bottom - the old trickle-down theory.
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My mom teaches sixth grade and also taught first grade at one point. She's into dressing up and costumes and designing her own curriculum that way. She stayed home for about eight years with me and my sister when we were young before going back to teaching, so we had a lot of time with her. She taught us to read really early.
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I am a Tambrahm born and brought up in Jamshedpur 20 years of my life, as my father worked for the Tatas there. My mother was a chief manager in the Bank of India and the only lady manager in Bihar in those times.
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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.
