Aldis Hodge Quotes
You can't just look like one culture and expect to inspire a multitude of people. That doesn't work over time. Everybody wants somebody to look up to that looks like them so they can truly believe in that reality for themselves.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
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It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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We really love to learn and explore things.
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Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it.
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When I make a film, the mixing process is very long, and you hear and watch the material in every form, so that totally shreds your ability to perceive it. So after the mixing, there's no way I can have the emotions or the reactions to my films in the same way.
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In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.
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I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
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People will have MP3s of every Miles Davis' record but never think of hearing any of them twice in a row - there's just too much to get through.
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You can't just look like one culture and expect to inspire a multitude of people. That doesn't work over time. Everybody wants somebody to look up to that looks like them so they can truly believe in that reality for themselves.
