Alan Parker Quotes
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!
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I'm prepared for Amir Khan moving swiftly - or for whatever style he comes out using. I prepared with sparring, in the style similar to what he uses.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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Eight days the light continued on its own: A miracle, they say, but not more so Than ordinary lives of flesh and bone, Consuming wicks burned ashen long ago.
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Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes.
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Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
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There are two questions that you ask yourself as a writer, and one of them is, 'But why?' The question that takes the book forward is, 'What if? What if x y or z happened? How would those characters react?'
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A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads.
