Alan Dundes Quotes
Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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The directors told me they were going to recruit good players with whom I could play decent football. Marko Marin, Oscar and me, we like to have the ball at our feet. Juan Mata likes the ball; so does Ramires.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.
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Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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Most pumpkin dishes involve scooping out the seeds, cutting off the skin, and chopping up the flesh before cooking.
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Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.
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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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The song tells me what to play.
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Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.
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To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.
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My entire family were Democrats all our lives. But because how furious I was about the previous administration, I turned in my card to become a Republican. I did not want to be known as a Democrat under that person's regime.
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All my main characters have got bits of me, bits of my family, bits of my friends.
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Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.
