Andrew McAleer Quotes
Trends come and go, and if you try to latch onto a trend it will likely be passé by the time you have completed your manuscript.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.
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I'm in hotel rooms most of the time, and it can be hard to find a hotel with a nice gym. It was important for me to have a workout I could do in my room.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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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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Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
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Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.
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I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
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The marshalling of those resources in order to obtain the maximum war effort for Australia, and a maximum degree of help and cooperation for Great Britain and the sister Dominions, is the primary objective of the new Department.
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I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed.
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You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.
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I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.
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The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
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President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how.
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I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.
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Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition!
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When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.
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I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to train them, and to project our ideas upon them; to ride and drive them, and to make them symbolic, perhaps to a greater degree than any other species.
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I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.
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I've taken legislation that people have been trying to pass for 10 or 15 years, and I got it passed.
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Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.
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Writers in Latin America live in a reality that is extraordinarily demanding. Surprisingly, our answer to these demands protects and develops our individuality. I feel I am not alone in trying to give their voice to those who don't have it.
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Trends come and go, and if you try to latch onto a trend it will likely be passé by the time you have completed your manuscript.
