Alan Taylor Quotes
When you direct a movie that makes no money whatsoever, there is no rush to your door for the next one.
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My first conscious thought of 'I should be like that and not like this' was probably at about six, and I was playing with... I have a twin brother, and we were playing with our twin cousins, who are a boy and a girl.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.
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Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.
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I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
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I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.
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I've gone on in front of a crowd of 10 people and 7,000 people.
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I was excited to make my own 'Neverland.'
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I started feeling secure in every way once I began to accept myself the way I was. Whether that was emotional, financial or professional security, all of it came and embraced me because I embraced myself.
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Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.
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Literature is analysis after the event.
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I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.
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Practices were tough.
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In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and anarchic expression. The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.
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When you direct a movie that makes no money whatsoever, there is no rush to your door for the next one.
