Alan Taylor Quotes

The Marvel experience was particularly wrenching because I was sort of given absolute freedom while we were shooting, and then in post, it turned into a different movie.

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• It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.

  

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• Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.

  

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• I studied Morse code.

  

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• I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.

  

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• I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.

  

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• I don't like denial. I don't like repression.

  

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• I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.

  

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• Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.

  

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• There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

  

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• Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.

  

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• I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

  

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• I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.

  

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• More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

  

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• I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.

  

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• Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

  

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• Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

  

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• Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

  

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• At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

  

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• The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

  

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• The whole idea is you can't sit around and do nothing. You have to get up and start living one day at a time. That's what I did my entire career. You can't sit around and say, 'Oh, poor me. Nobody likes me. Nobody is giving me a job.' You have to get up and go. If you sit at home and do nothing, that is what is going to happen.

  

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• My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.' I turned 19 on the next movie I worked on, which was a black 'Blazing Saddles.' I worked in the art department. It was called 'Darktown Strutters.'

  

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• The Marvel experience was particularly wrenching because I was sort of given absolute freedom while we were shooting, and then in post, it turned into a different movie.

  

  Alan Taylor
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Movie