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 don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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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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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
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The difference between a good and great officer is about ten seconds.
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I knew there was never anyone to blame when people get into drugs. They're always responsible for their own behavior, and it's not the dealer, and it's not the friend, it's not the childhood. (Scar Tissue, 2004).
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I didn't get into the music business because somebody made me take piano lessons, you know. I got into music because I was a natural writer and had a lot of curiosity about sound.
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I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain.
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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.
