Alex Kapranos Quotes
A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.
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You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.
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When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to rise to the occasion and help someone else, but you have to model for the next generation.
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For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.
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The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.
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All of my high school issues are resolved!
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There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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Of course, a movie is in constant flux.
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That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
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The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!
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I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.
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When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.
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One thing I learn - I've been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.
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I like to be challenged and stay true to my archetype. That's something I don't admit of being like in real life and I don't have to be. I always try to understand what would lead an individual to being that way, to being oblivious to the fact that he's somewhat insensitive and scared of commitment, and that psychological journey, and what traumas may have occurred in this person's childhood to bring him to that point.
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When the label came to me to say, 'would you like to do another record,' I said, 'Well I got these sixteen songs sitting here, so let's do it.' And that was pretty much it... I never stopped writing, it's just the way that the business is now; you just try to find a different model.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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We seem to think we have some control over this planet.
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How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I'm my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.
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A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.
