Alan Parker Quotes
I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.Alan Parker
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Barbara Kingsolver -
I don't run on the treadmill, because there's no treadmill moving for you on the soccer field.
Carli Lloyd -
People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
Tadao Ando -
Surprisingly, I am great at kiteboarding, but I'm not great at surfing.
Maika Monroe -
Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.
Saina Nehwal -
There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.
Harry Bridges
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I wanted to have a body of work behind me before I wrote about racism.
Malorie Blackman -
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.
Veerappa Moily -
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.
Illinois Jacquet -
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!
Taylor Swift -
I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
Natalie Merchant -
I had a really lovely childhood, but I wasn't the easiest kid to live with.
Rachel Keller
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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.
Barton Gellman -
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.
Rami Malek -
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.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
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.
Salman Rushdie -
What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?
Abu Bakar Bashir -
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.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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I think comedians should focus on what makes them happy, what art form fulfills them the most. Don't be calculated about it and say, 'Okay, I'm gonna tweet, and I'm gonna podcast, and I'm gonna do standup, and one of those things is going to lead me to my own TV show.' I don't think that should be the goal.
Scott Aukerman -
I don't have technique because I never learnt any.
Emma Thompson -
I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It's not just all about happy parties all the time. There are some sad songs.
Dierks Bentley -
We don't have time as a nation to spend all of what we do blocking.
Lisa Murkowski -
I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.
Kelly Miller -
I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.
Alan Parker