Alex Clare Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
-
If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.
-
I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
-
Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.
-
I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
-
I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
-
My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.
-
I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
-
My son Darrel could recite 'Straight Outta Compton' at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them.
-
Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.
-
People always say, and my family has said it to me, that you know who your real friends are when you're at your lowest point and you don't have a job or whatever.
-
I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
-
Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.
-
Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.
-
I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
-
I've always been a reader and a writer.
-
I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
-
Something I learned when I was very young: with cooking, it doesn't matter where you are; you can always cook. You can end up in small village in Peru where somebody's cooking, take a spoon and taste it, and you might not be too sure what you're eating, but you can taste the soul in the food. That's what is beautiful with food.
-
I know little about the women of my own race...
-
A good song to one person could just be something mediocre to somebody else. It's always strange thinking about how songs connect with people.
-
I usually start with a guitar riff or some little pattern of chords, and then I kind of go from there. Usually my lyrics are the last thing to go onto a song. For years and years I only ever did instrumental, so I'm still trying to get confidant with my lyrics and find the right balance. I'll generally get inspired from the music. I'll have a guitar line, and then I'll have a melody line, and I hook the lyrics up to fit that rhythm. So, my lyrics to tend be very rhythmic as well. They work with the music rather than the music works around them.
-
When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
-
No one ever wrote a story yet without some real emotional drive behind it--and I have not that drive except where violations of the natural order ... defiances and evasions of time, space, and cosmic law ... are concerned.
-
Every song I write, including 'Too Close,' always starts on the guitar.
