Alex Kurtzman Quotes
When you're a kid, and you're a superhero lover, the holy trinity is Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, so to be able to take any of those and play with it is a huge joy.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
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But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
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Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
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I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.
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Don't limit your challenges; challenge your limits. Each day we must strive for constant and never ending improvement.
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks-his pipe might fall out if he did.
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The different sorts of madness are innumerable.
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A helpful thing for me has always been - this is from a great acting teacher Declan Donnellan - is this beautiful way of expressing how and why people do things that other people may not do. It's a simple sentence that says, 'I understand you; you don't understand me.'
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Ramifications of small decisions can be pretty large.
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When you're a kid, and you're a superhero lover, the holy trinity is Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, so to be able to take any of those and play with it is a huge joy.
