Alan Stern Quotes
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You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training day. I always get my four days out of my seven.
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To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
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All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros - they're all love songs. They're about giving your heart to a person. It's a culture that is so romantic and passionate, and that's something that I'm very proud of. We grew up with nothing, so we just want to live a life full of love.
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In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
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The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.
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I believe everyone is mad when they are in love, and I don't think that can ever end.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
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I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.
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In Denmark, we're making 20 films a year. If I'm showing up in even two of those, people will get tired of me really fast.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
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One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.
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If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
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I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.
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I'm so sick of people treating Latinos like some homogenous group that all feel the same way about everything.
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One of the mistakes I made was placing too much trust in Montesinos.
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I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.
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One of the reasons I write is to be in other people's skin.
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After Gmail, if you have AOL, people are like, 'Are you still with this?' What does it matter what e-mail you have?
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Human beings have long wondered whether they are alone in the universe.
