Alan Siegel Quotes
I love the interaction with different kinds of people. I like to shake things up, make a difference.
Quotes to Explore
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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I think I'm like a free spirit.
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.
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I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.
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Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
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I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don't want to be walking down the street with a bodyguard. I don't think that will be an issue playing in L.A.
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We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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I knew my successor would be better than me for the next stage of the company's life. And it was a relief - I'd been doing it for 30 years. My only worry was what the hell I was going to do with my time.
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You've got to be the best at what you can do - be the best at it! And the best has to be the best; you can't just fiddle around and hope.
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It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't.
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Probably the biggest challenge for me as a director was to not show how scared I was. I was surrounded by some of the most talented people in the industry, and I had to pretend I knew what I was doing.
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I love the interaction with different kinds of people. I like to shake things up, make a difference.
