Alan Parsons Quotes
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I write in a small office at home.
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We don't really watch basketball in Australia.
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I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
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I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
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I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.
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I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.
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I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.
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I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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If you get a script and it's really well written, that's always exciting.
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For you to be able to rap fast and fit many words into a bar, that's what rap is about, the showmanship. That's the thing we're kind of losing now. I'm not saying that the music now is horrible. I mean, I don't listen to it. The showmanship and creativity in rap is what made it special and what made it different.
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My father was very methodical about life. He'd always ask me, 'Now, what's your system? What's your schedule like?' I have no big system, no rigid schedule. When he would ask, 'How do you do this? Give it to me step by step,' I'd try to convince him that there were no step-by-steps.
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In the first test screening of 'RoboCop,' it tested very high. Then they asked the people why they liked it, and the first answer was, 'I liked it because it was political.' And the second answer was because, 'It feels like it deals with current affairs.' And the third answer was, 'Because it feels emotional.'
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It's entirely ridiculous and hopeless to try to compete with somebody who made such a huge contribution to photography... I knew when I went into photography that I would be compared to my mother. I thought to myself, what can I do about that?
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I try to find a way that the other guy hasn't thought of using a sound or a sample.
