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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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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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 do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.
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Ty Walker doesn't wear suits very much. He's not used to being that pressed and conservative businessman. So, he's self-conscious anyway about walking around in these skinny-legged suits, and then for someone to sort of assume that's who he is, it really bothers him.
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The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.
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When I was 16, I really discovered good stuff like Detroit techno or gabba from Holland.
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Animals used for food are treated like unfeeling machinery.
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There aren't as many roles for people who look like me, and it was always complicated when it came to casting my parents. But now I couldn't be more grateful that I have a different look.
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Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.
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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.
