Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes
Filmmaking can give you everything, but at the same time, it can take everything from you.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things.
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We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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I learned that I truly am a fighter and that I cannot give up.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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Successful entrepreneurs always give 100% of their efforts to everything they do.
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He will fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites too.
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
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If someone told me, 'I'm gonna give you $600 million, but I'm going to take your hair'? Take my hair!
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Encourage aspiring writers to continue writing when things are going against them, when it feels hard. Explain the typical obstacles that occur, and encourage and reassure them to continue, never to give up.
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A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.
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Place hitting is, in a sense, glorified bunting. I only take a half swing at the ball, and the weight of the bat rather than my swing is what drives it.
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Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
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I love seeing my husband hold our daughter and just give her kisses, unsolicited kisses. When he doesn't know that I'm watching or when I come into the room and I look over and he's just kissing her forehead or kissing her cheek. He loves her so much, and I love his love for her.
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In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most. One American film that stands out for me for its workmanship and artistry is 'Ratatouille.' It was an astonishing effort in filmmaking.
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I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
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I will not take 'but' for an answer.
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I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.
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People can take, take, take from you. There are people whose profession is to do that. It's entertainment at the cost of human lives.
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To contact the cosmic giggle, to have the flow of casuistry begin to give off synchronistic ripples, whitecaps in the billows of the coincidental ether, if you will. To achieve that, a precondition is a kind of unconsciousness, a kind of drifting, a certain taking-your-eye-off-the-ball, a certain assumptions that things are simpler than they are, almost always precedes what Mircea Eliade called ‘the rupture of plane’ that indicates that there is an archetypal world, an archetypal power behind profane appearances.
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I am a glutton for tranquility.
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Filmmaking can give you everything, but at the same time, it can take everything from you.
