Alan Parker Quotes
I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.Alan Parker
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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 -
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 -
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
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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.
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 -
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 -
I don't agree with everything that any of our political leaders say or believe - that's going to happen sometimes.
Dale Murphy -
Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.
Daniel Alarcon
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The first time I met Elizabeth Edwards, she greeted me at the door of her home juggling a yogurt in one hand and a Diet Coke in the other.
Jennifer Palmieri -
I will go to my grave being known as Marge Gunderson. It'll be on my gravestone if I have one. I don't mind that, because it was a great character.
Frances McDormand -
I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator, and Howard is closer to the middle.
Neil LaBute -
Let's not kid ourselves here, robots already run most of our world. We'll be their butlers soon enough.
Eric Stoltz -
I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.
Alan Parker