Alan Dundes Quotes
Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.
Quotes to Explore
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'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
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I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.
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I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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The door can never be closed for good to any player.
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One sees in Latin America, and also elsewhere, among many Catholics a certain schizophrenia between individual and public morality.
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Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.
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Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.
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In another life - and as I like to say, another body - I used to teach aerobics.
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Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.
