Alan Parker Quotes
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I am not honest.
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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Actor's life is very long.
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.
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I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.
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I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
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More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.
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I don't want to get fat.
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I used to imagine working as a White House staffer some day, so it was pretty amazing to be there... realizing another dream.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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I did go through a period where I was on unemployment. That was my low point: Martha Quinn on line at unemployment, hoping nobody will recognize her.
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At the end of the day, the less money you have, the easier it is to make a movie.
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Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
