Alan J. Pakula Quotes
Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.
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Injuries are a huge thing for skating. I think skating is a very unnatural sport for the body, very tough on the joints.
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Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.
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The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland that causes an overproduction of human growth hormone. And throughout history, many of the most famous giants have all had acromegaly.
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Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible?
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I love that I love my job, and from what I'm told, that others who I work with do, too.
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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
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I like being the center of attention. I want to be in the limelight, basically.
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The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.
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Each time I've gone to the studio, the songs have got better and I've got more confident.
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I don't really know how to work a camera.
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Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.
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House of the Dead 2 I gave away. Alone in the Dark 2 I will also not do; even if the DVD movie made money. BloodRayne 2 in the Wild West is what I really want to do.
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Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything.
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It’s not impossible my dear. It’s just a very remarkable coincidence - and remarkable coincidences do happen.
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Acquiring market leaders in the U.S. and around the world continues to be a core part of our growth strategy as we strengthen our global platform, one step at a time.
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Claire Danes is lovely and a really great actress.
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I never read reviews of something I want to see.
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Somewhere in the gray wood by the river is the huntsman and in the brooming corn and in the castellated press of cities. His work lies all wheres and his hounds tire not. I have seen them in a dream, slaverous and wild and their eyes crazed with ravening for souls in this world. Fly them.
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I was totally into cartoon babes when I was a little dude. Cheetara from the 'Thundercats,' then Jessica Rabbit, and finally I moved onto a real-life human being and was into Punky Brewster, and then Christina Applegate on 'Married with Children.'
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I have learned to become not an M.D. but a 'C.D.' for the wounded people I meet. Yes, a 'Chosen Dad' who may not like their behavior but loves and reparents them and helps them to heal their lives and find self-worth and self-esteem and save their lives.
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Life is everything, and you haven't lived it properly until you believe.
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I thought I was gonna be a farmer.
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Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.
