Alex Cox Quotes

I did not find my studies particularly enthralling.

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• He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • War
  • End

• When I met Eric Clapton, I was a very young girl. I was 20 years old. And we were linked for a very short time, and then we became friends. And then we lost touch, which I'm really sorry about.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Girl

• I look three to five years ahead, not 10 years behind.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Look
  • Three
  • Ahead

• I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremely helpful and I regarded her as a sister in the Lord. I wasn't out to attack Ellen White's character.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Character
  • Thought
  • Sister

• The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some presidents talk too much, like Bill Clinton. Some presidents try to talk but don't know how, like George Bush senior.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Job
  • Know
  • Try

• Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Strong
  • Born

• I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Challenge

• You can't help but be in awe of the athletic abilities of the WWE Superstars.

  

  Dana Davis
  • Help
  • You
  • Athletic

• I feel it's the conscious mind that messes things up. The conscious mind is constantly telling you, this might happen or that might happen, even before it has happened. Your conscious mind tells you the next ball might be a out-swinger, but when it's coming at you you realize it's an in-swinger... so literally, you've played two balls.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Feel

• Let no rank puff up anyone; for faith and love are paramount - the greatest blessings in the world.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Up
  • World
  • Love

• Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Poetry
  • Everyone
  • Belongs

• 'E.T.' was the movie that made me want to make movies in the first place, and it was the first movie that made me focus on writing instead of what happens in the movie.

  

  Adam Green
  • Writing
  • Movie
  • Me

• I made two rings for myself, and when I was in Los Angeles, I walked into a store called Maxfields, and they essentially bought them off my hands.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Myself
  • Hands
  • Los Angeles

• Despite the fact that meat is made from dead animals, it shouldn't smell that way. Try this test for meat freshness: close your eyes and see if you can tell the pork chops from a gym locker.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Eyes
  • Gym

• There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.

  

  Art Spiegelman
  • Nature

• The Buddhas who have been and who shall be, of these am I and what they did, I do.

  

  Edwin Arnold

• Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • People
  • Life
  • Character

• For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction, and especially novels, but I'm a writer... I write poetry and essays and criticism and I'd love to write a whole play, and sometimes I even write scripts.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Poetry

• If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.

  

  Jason Calacanis
  • Up
  • Reality

• When the 'Guardian' is commissioning writers to write obituary pieces about you and your career... it doesn't get much nastier than that. And you've just got to go, 'It doesn't actually matter.'

  

  James Corden
  • Career

• I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

  

  Catherine McCormack
  • Doing
  • Habit
  • Nothing

• You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

  

  Robert Plant Led Zeppelin
  • Up
  • Music
  • Believe

• You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man’s nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses. And although our life, in this manifestation of it, is often worthless, yet it is life and not simply extracting square roots.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Human Life
  • Manifestation
  • Satisfies

• I did not find my studies particularly enthralling.

  

  Alex Cox