Alan Gerry Quotes
We can't recreate Woodstock, nor do we want to. We want to turn its notoriety into a place where we can shape controlled, scaled-down musical events of all sorts.
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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I love nothing better than immersing myself in different street cultures; exploring all those neighbourhoods in Tokyo was quite amazing, or visiting Morocco to see an Inditex factory.
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I actually started out as a poet in high school. I published in small literary magazines for probably about ten years. I entered the Yale Younger Poet contest every year, until I was too old to be a younger poet, and I never got more than a form rejection letter from them.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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But I would say maybe just from an actress's perspective, probably 'Woman Under the Influence' is the best movie of all time. The style of filmmaking and the performances... you don't feel like you're watching a film.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?
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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.
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In kindergarten I had to draw a picture of what I wanted to be when I grew up. I drew a rapper. I didn't really know what a rapper was or what they did - I just wanted to do it.
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I want to be Kanye and do what he does musically. I'm very fearless.
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I've always had bad posture, and Pilates makes me feel taller and reminds me to keep my shoulders back. And hiking isn't just about doing cardio, it's also when I can get my 'me time' to be alone with my thoughts. After Pilates I should do some cardio, and after hiking, I need to do some resistance training.
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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
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Wretched un-idea'd girls.
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Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.
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It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard;It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word.
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She was like Marat only with nobody to kill her.
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You don't get what you deserve - it would be amazing if life worked out that way.
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My reaction to 3D is subtly. Things don't come out at you, but rather you - The audience come into the film.
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After 35, I felt like I'd been in these relationships; some were great, some weren't so great, but they weren't right partnerships.
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We can't recreate Woodstock, nor do we want to. We want to turn its notoriety into a place where we can shape controlled, scaled-down musical events of all sorts.
