Alan Parker Quotes
A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.
Alan Parker
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I've had laser eye surgery and I don't wear glasses any more, so people just go, 'You're not Damien Hirst.' I don't get recognized on the street.
Damien Hirst
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
E. Franklin Frazier
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At the end of the day, New Yorkers need a mayor who understands the problems they face, brings a smart plan and good people to the table, and, more than anything, has the independence, courage and conviction to do the right thing.
Sal Albanese
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I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops.
Zola Budd
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Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.
Naomi Judd
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I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.
Rami Malek
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Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
Abu Bakr
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I like peace and solitude and silence.
Carla Bruni
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Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts.
Octavio Paz
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There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.
Maggie Smith
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What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers - stern and wild ones, - and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.
Ingmar Bergman
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Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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In solitude the trumpets of solitude Are not of another solitude resounding; A little string speaks for a crowd of voices.
Wallace Stevens
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My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall not quench my thirst. But in this burning that is never extinguished is a joy that never wanes.
Kahlil Gibran
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Life is the desert, life the solitude;Death joins us to the great majority.
Edward Young
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Society is all but rude,To this delicious solitude.
Andrew Marvell
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The Bush Doctrine is a prescription for permanent war for permanent peace, though wars are the death of republics.
Pat Buchanan
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I admire writers who succeed at what I consider the first demand of art: that the artist vivisect himself without pity, without hesitation, determined to reveal whatever he might find.
Kathryn Harrison
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I do believe in ghosts, but I haven't seen one. I can imagine that you cross over to the other side, some different dimension or whatever, but how do your clothes get there? Ghosts are always wearing clothes.
Jamie Hince
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I was trying to show colour, but I realized at the private view that the public were prisoners of a preconceived point of view and that, confronted with all these surfaces of different colours, they responded far more to the inter-relationship of the different propositions, they reconstituted the elements of a decorative polychromy.
Yves Klein
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A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.
Alan Parker
