Alan Parker Quotes
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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I felt great! I'm ready to roll tonight!
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Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.
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Generally, in Gujarati families, people get married early, and all my friends are married with two kids. My father had told me, 'If you do not find a right partner, do not get married'; that's the advice he has always given me. So, I will never compromise in my marriage.
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The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.
