Alan Cox Quotes
Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window.
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After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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I don't do negative things.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
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Global terror does not respect national boundaries.
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We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.
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I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
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The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.
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Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.
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I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.
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American firms are beginning to reproduce nonsustainable systems, to force the elite of India to become energy consumers of the kind that the U.S. has become. ThatÂ’s what globalization is about: Find markets where you can.
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Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window.
