Alex Flinn Quotes
Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
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It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
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Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal.
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Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.
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Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
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People don't think I can construct a sentence, let alone write a script.
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We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.
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Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not being serious, of not doing things like everyone else.
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The war is definitely in the background, only referred to in radio news blips and conversation. I think, ultimately, this film is about the choices these guys are faced with. In that way, I think this is a more personal story about their friendship, about the reaction that they have when they're essentially faced with death, to a certain degree.
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I know I'm only as good as the material I've got to work with. I'm not an alchemist, not when it comes to writing or production.
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Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.
