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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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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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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During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
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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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People don't like to follow pessimists.
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No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
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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.
