Alan Taylor Quotes
The weird thing is, 'Game of Thrones,' people go to Iceland for three weeks, and it'd be like a small guerilla operation. 'Thor,' we went there for, like, five days, because we couldn't afford to be there any longer, because we were airlifting the entire contents of Hollywood into this country.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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I go out and speak to women's groups all the time, and I say, 'Guys, you gotta laugh and find the humor in things. You gotta pass it on.'
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My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
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The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.
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In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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My work is through my emotions, so everything kind of goes together.
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Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.
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The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
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Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
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The more you make people alike, the more competition you have. Competition is based on the principle of conformity. (p. 135)
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I was at Yankee Stadium one time at 5 a.m., but that was to buy angel dust.
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Maybe a theme that touches all of my work is people reinventing themselves.
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The weird thing is, 'Game of Thrones,' people go to Iceland for three weeks, and it'd be like a small guerilla operation. 'Thor,' we went there for, like, five days, because we couldn't afford to be there any longer, because we were airlifting the entire contents of Hollywood into this country.
