Alan Cheuse Quotes
We want a world with both historians and novelists, don't we? Not with one or the other. Every fiction writer crosses the line that divides artistry and documentation - or erases it.
Quotes to Explore
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Indian cinema is no more limited to audiences in India. We have viewers all around the world, and hence, understanding the global perspective is a must. Cinema Beyond Boundaries would get the viewers and the filmmakers together and would help us in serving them with good quality cinema.
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Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.
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The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.
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High fashion has become representative of stability in unstable places; that allows you to have a voice in the world stage.
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It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world.
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A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.
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Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.
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I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.
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I really do try to watch everything I say. Because one little tiny slip, and it's like the world is coming to an end!
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We're certainly not in position to expand into the East. We've been very candid and up front that if, in fact, we go through an expansion process, the world will know about it.
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In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.
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Helping doing business easier, we choose the name Alibaba because it is a global company. It is founded in China, but it was created for the world.
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I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.
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I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.
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Some people think the world will end in 2012. I think we've got until 2014. I'm an optimist.
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Pictures can be devastating. Who allowed John Kerry to get himself photographed windsurfing in a flowered swimsuit? Anyone in the real world in that operation?
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I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me.
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Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
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Among my favorite half-dozen topics is the field of Victorian female explorers, the intrepid women who packed up their parasols and petticoats and roamed the world in search of adventure. Some were scientists, some artists, some unabashed curiosity-seekers who simply went out to see what they could see.
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We love our fans, so there's nothing we wouldn't do for them, and we go directly to t hem.
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Justice is merely incidental to law and order.
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I'm interested in wartime stories, as I think it's important to remember what the soldiers went through.
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I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.
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We want a world with both historians and novelists, don't we? Not with one or the other. Every fiction writer crosses the line that divides artistry and documentation - or erases it.
