Alex Gibney Quotes
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I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.
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As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.
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Once in a while, I still witness occasionally sexist behavior and comments from men (which experience has taught me you should always deflect with humour rather than anger). Old habits die hard, after all, and it's unrealistic to expect dinosaurs to fall silent overnight.
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The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of myself.
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With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a clue.
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A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.
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My parents instilled in me a sense of self that I was more than just a diagnosis or a condition.
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I do not like being famous. I like being normal.
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I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.
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So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
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About 13-14 years ago, I went back to my alma mater, Fairfax High School, and ran into the music teacher. She invited me to come speak to the kids about the viability of a music career. When I went into the room where I used to play every day in a big orchestra, they had nothing!
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I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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I don't think that I could ever be a strict dad. I never grew up with anybody strict in my life... I'm not saying I'm a role model by any means or anything. I think the fact that I wasn't told what not to do all the time - my spirit kind of told me things that I shouldn't - I got to develop on my own. It's part of your common sense.
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I most certainly believe that it is the gift of God that I am what I am. And so I dwell amongst barbarians, a proselyte and an exile, for the love of God.
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I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses.
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I don't have much estimation of my abilities as a director, but I found I loved class and loved process and loved practice. And so I've put together classes of actors - oh my God - since I was 21 years old, I think.
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I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.
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I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.
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I was an obsessive fantasy reader from the time I could read at all.
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Even with a villain, you don't want him just to be some pockmarked punchbag.
