Alex Kapranos Quotes
I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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I grew up as a country boy.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.
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If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's Day. If you're married, you can't win on Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is like the thing you want to avoid at all costs.
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I have a lot of respect for the careers of the players. They are with us, they are with me, and I treat them like professionals.
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There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.
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People who are emotionally adapt - who know and manage their feelings well, and who read and deal effectively with other people's feelings - are at an advantage in any domain in life, whether in romance and intimate relationships or picking up the unspoken rules that govern success in organizational politics.
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I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.
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I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.
