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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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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There are two types of friends: actual friends, and the other kind.
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I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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There's a lot of great people out here, I just appreciate it and hope everybody has had fun because I've enjoyed my ride.
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A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads.
