Alex Kurtzman Quotes
What your character does for a living is one of the most important choices you can make in a screenplay, even if their job is tangential to the story, because it tells you everything about the condition of their life. Are they doing what they love? Are they doing what they hate?
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
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You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.
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America faces a new race that has awakened.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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I don't feel closeted.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'
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I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.
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Life is like riding a bicycle, in order to keep your balance you must keep moving.
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The F.B.I. was very happy with the article they produced, which was entitled, "The Black Merchants of Hate," that came out in early 1963. What's significant about that piece is that that became the template for what evolved into the basic narrative structure of The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
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Everyone is entitled to their own political opinions. It is what makes our country great.
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What your character does for a living is one of the most important choices you can make in a screenplay, even if their job is tangential to the story, because it tells you everything about the condition of their life. Are they doing what they love? Are they doing what they hate?
