Alan Parker Quotes
I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.
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It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
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I don't run on the treadmill, because there's no treadmill moving for you on the soccer field.
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People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
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Surprisingly, I am great at kiteboarding, but I'm not great at surfing.
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Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.
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There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.
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I wanted to have a body of work behind me before I wrote about racism.
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I am not playing for any lobby. I am playing for national lobby. I will ignore lobby. Anybody has useful suggestion, they can give it to me. The history will speak about it.
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Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound.
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I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!
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I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
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I had a really lovely childhood, but I wasn't the easiest kid to live with.
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No one can keep track of how many people use Internet, how many machines it can reach, or even how many sub- and sub-sub-networks form a part of it.
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Mara Casey gave me my first job. I saw something online, and it was for a part in a 'Gilmore Girls' episode, and I thought I was right for it.
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The protocol things, the officialdom, are part of my work. But it doesn't take more than 20 percent of my time. The majority of my time I spend on issues that I care about.
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Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.
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What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?
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Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy - essential to keeping it alive.
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When I'm happy and in a good mood, I just search for other things that maybe connect to me on another level. I talk to my friends and see how they're feeling - see what's going on in their lives.
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As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery" - naturally with no motive, they do not care to discuss motives - according to them, anti-Semitism is a madness, an intellectual degeneration, an affliction of the spirit.
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If Senator Obama becomes pro-life then I'll consider giving him my vote.
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I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.
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Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.
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I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.
