Alan W. Livingston Quotes
I read somewhere once that you could be whatever you wanted. As long as I could remember, I was determined to make my way in the big world. And that meant New York.
Quotes to Explore
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Accomplish something every day of your life.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
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I've found just the right amount of balance in my life. I'm this pop artist in America, but I'm also Malaysian. And I'm also Muslim.
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Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
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If I were a customer, and I was given a dish with peppers, I would hate it. I also don't like blood sausage.
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I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.
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So many venues are owned by these various different ticketing and promoting people, and they're all in bed with one another. It's no secret over here.
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I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial air emissions.
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Some things are very low profile, but if they excite me creatively, I accept them. Sometimes there are high-profile projects, and you have to do it. We all have human limitations. It is a painful decision to turn things down. Even accepting 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a decision that I had to sacrifice another project.
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I think I'd be too scared to direct my first movie and put myself in the center.
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One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short. (5 February 1943)
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More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.
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I read somewhere once that you could be whatever you wanted. As long as I could remember, I was determined to make my way in the big world. And that meant New York.
