Erol Alkan Quotes
One thing I always found hard to stomach over the past few years is that being a DJ or musician is a career opportunity.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.
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I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
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One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
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There's some freedom that you get with indie films that you don't get with the big-budget ones. There's just a different style. I hope I can switch back and forth for the rest of my career, but I've kind of grown up on indies, and there's nothing better than working with these directors so closely and and being such a huge part of the process.
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I think actors make for very good directors, and I would like to do that one day.
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The way the media tends to cover fashion is as this superfluous, vacuous industry. They focus on models and shows, but behind all that is a massive global industry.
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What I find is that when young people find a brand they relate to, that they feel speaks to them, they want it in every format they can get.
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Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.
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The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.
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The United States Supreme Court has voted 6-3 that voter photo ID is constitutional.
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Actually, parts of New Zealand remind me of Suffolk. There's not many flat bits, but just the atmosphere there. There's a kind of a core tranquility about it, a kind of assuredness that this is fairly close to approaching the perfect way to be.
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I'm a spiritual person.
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If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.
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Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
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But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.
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I wish I hadn't lost it, and for the rest of my life I can never again lose my temper on TV. The BBC could have sacked me and that would have been the end of my career on TV.
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I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?
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One thing I always found hard to stomach over the past few years is that being a DJ or musician is a career opportunity.
