Alan Oliveira Quotes
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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I did one touring show with Horatio Sanz. We went to, I think it was Iowa State University, and we were in this field house, so people were sitting on the floor. It started out with 2,500 people in there. We delivered the most mediocre improv, and it went from a crowd of 2,500 to 250 people in the course of 45 minutes. It was grim.
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Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
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The guest to me was always paramount.
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When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.
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All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated.
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I've always been drawn to storytelling, and acting is the most immersive form of storytelling you can get involved with! You're actually in the story when you're acting.
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I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.
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Our actions are the ground we walk on.
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'Life Aquatic' was the first movie I did, and it's been an incredible adventure since then.
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I'm very comfortable in Argentina. I was raised there as a baby and stayed there until I was 11 years old, so the first decade of my life or my formative years were spent in Argentina. I stayed in tune with the food, music and language.
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What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.
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My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.
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I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.
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The way I live my life or conduct myself when I have a problem is very different from many of the characters I play.
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First, think in as homely a way as you can; next, shove your pen under the thought, and lift it by polysyllables to the true level of fiction
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Raw leafy greens contain only about 100 calories per pound and are packed with nutrients.
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Nobody who has even kicked a ball in the street likes losing.
