Alex Graves Quotes
Most TV shows are writing the next episode while you're directing the one you're doing, and they're trying to figure out what they're going to do, and they're putting it all together.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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I don't put the focus on things that don't matter.
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Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.
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Since September 11, security has been increased everywhere, and we have new IDs to get on to the Fox lot. I drove to the security gate, but realized I'd left my ID in my other car. I just broke into that voice - 'Hey, man, I'm Bart Simpson. Who else sounds like this?' The guard waved me through.
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Sometimes I start with the beat. Sometimes I can write something down and it takes me a while to figure out how I want to say it or the beat I want to say it to. I definitely like to live the experiences that I cover.
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My golden rules for looking good are to moisturise to ridiculousness with a really rich moisturiser. And I always take my make-up off before going to bed.
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Most TV shows are writing the next episode while you're directing the one you're doing, and they're trying to figure out what they're going to do, and they're putting it all together.
