Alonzo King Quotes
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I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.
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Politics ruins the character.
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Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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I've never worried about how long the song is.
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Privacy is important to me. But it's not just about sticking two fingers up and saying I don't want anyone to know my business. It's an artistic choice. I think that for any actor to convince their audience that they have completely inhabited a character requires a certain level of anonymity.
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How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
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There should be a place and the space for all pop.
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I have transcended that phase in my intellectual growth where I discover humour in simple freakishness. What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since wherever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapours rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite my laughter.
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By and by an obscure individual, a young man, rose up, and, in the midst of all Christendom, proclaimed the startling news that God had sent an angel to him;... This young man, some four years afterwards, was visited again by a holy angel.
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The happiest mortals on earth are ladies who have been bereaved by the loss of their husbands.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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I hadn't worked for a couple of years so I thought it would be nice to earn some money and pay the bills.
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I think there's always going to be a problem dealing with firearms, with knives. It's the animal we are that cause the problems.
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My arm extended upward in pleading for peace and the Union of our Fathers... When my hand came down from that impassioned gesticulation, it fell slowly and sadly by the side of a Secessionist.
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I think that when we talk about the regulators and the politicians, the economic consequences of bad decisions back in '08, you know, were devastating, and they had repercussions throughout the world.
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Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average.
