Alex Cox Quotes
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All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
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I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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There are dodgy characters in Bitcoin. But there are dodgy characters in cash, too.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.
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I wrote a techno song about the four things I love in Germany to make myself happy, which are my grandfather, my two poodle pets, bread, and a strange but delicious Turkish dish called Doener Kebab.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
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My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.
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Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.
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They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.
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My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.
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My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
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Not only was it that I surprised people by beating Bret Hart, but it was a great match. They still rate it as one of the best wrestling matches of all time.
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When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy.
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Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.
