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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'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?
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In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!
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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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I have been willing, in the case of civil statutes, to acknowledge a doctrine of scrivener's error that permits a court to give an unusual (though not unheard of) meaning to a word which, if given its normal meaning, would produce an absurd and arguably unconstitutional result.
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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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I just love to shop. If I could, I would shop every single day in every single store and spend all of my money which, you know, I do anyway.
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Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and sculptors, concerned themselves with rendering reality with as much likeness as their skill enabled. Photography, however, made artistic reality much more available, more quickly and on a much broader scale.
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I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.
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I was keenly aware that I had a unique opportunity, a front row seat, on an unfolding story and nobody else was going to see it from quite the vantage point that I saw it.
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I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.
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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.
