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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I do have a somewhat unique upbringing.
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Can you expect to go to heaven for nothing? Did not our Savior track the whole way to it with His tears and blood? And yet you stop at every little pain.
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What's changed in New York, and what made us really change our thinking about New York, is that the different neighborhoods are becoming more important as shopping destinations than they used to be.
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Meditating together is the best way to feel the collectivity.
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A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still left. I felt like here I was an American and this is an American city and the government hasn't done enough and people haven't given back enough. Everyone forgot and the city was lying in waste.
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I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.
