Alain Resnais Quotes
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.
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I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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When I was younger, I went through a phase when I didn't like my hair. Because the school I went to was primarily Caucasian, there wasn't anyone who had my hair texture. I remember one day I straightened my hair, and that was the first day that people gave me compliments on it.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
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I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do.
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If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine.
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To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.
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I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
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You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.
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The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to.
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I liked to discover connections like that, especially if they concerned Lila. I traced lines between moments and events distant from one another, I established convergences and divergences. In that period it became a daily exercise: the better off I had been in Ischia, the worse off Lila had been in the desolation of the neighborhood; the more I had suffered upon leaving the island, the happier she had become. It was as if, because of an evil spell, the joy or sorrow of one required the sorrow or joy of the other; even our physical aspect, it seemed to me, shared in that swing.
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I have always considered desserts to be of equal importance to the savory food.
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I spent a lot of time in college studying theater of the absurd and Beckett and Genet, and then I spent a lot of time after that at 'Gossip Girl' auditions, thinking, 'Wow, I really wasted my money.'
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I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what's right for the people. I choose to make a difference.
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It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.
