Brother Ali (Ali Douglas Newman) Quotes
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.
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You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
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In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate.
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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
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It was surreal to play opposite Angela Lansbury and Elaine Stritch, Bernadette Peters and Catherine Zeta-Jones. There was so much to learn just from watching them, and it was an honor to share the stage with women who have accomplished what they have.
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All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.
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Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.
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I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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Only two kind of daughters. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind! Only one kind of daughter can live in this house. Obedient daughter!
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And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.
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Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.
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Finish. The difference between being a writer and being a person of talent is the discipline it takes to apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair and finish. Don't talk about doing it. Do it. Finish.
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Blind in the eye, so I see you with my heart...
