Alex Cox Quotes
Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.
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Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.
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Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.
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I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
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I'm incredibly humbled that the leader of the modern liberty movement and strong conservative leader Congressman Ron Paul is backing our campaign.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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I'd love, love, love to do a comedy. I can't imagine being on set and being happy and cheerful. That seems so foreign.
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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.
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I don't think in terms of legacy or that kind of stuff. I've always thought that'll take care of itself if I did everything right on a day-to-day basis.
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I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
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The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
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The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
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It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.
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Some of the best actors think they're terrible; that's what keeps you connected to a vulnerability that makes it possible for people to empathize with you.
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I think it's the easiest thing in the world to be horribly critical about yourself.
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I don't ride a sport bike. If I'm riding a sport bike and trying to do tricks, and going 200 miles down the highway, that's probably pretty stupid. But when you're riding a Harley or a chopper, and you're riding with a group of people and you're not on the highway and you're cruising, you're relaxing.
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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.
