Alex Pareene Quotes
Modern political speechwriting is certainly a skill, and one that requires experience and practice to master.
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I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
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Folks like me have to feel a little indebted to the communities that they came from. And if they do, I think we'll start to see a little bit more of a geographic integration in the country because people will start to think, 'You know what? I owe that place something, and I should return to it in one form or another.'
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Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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I want to be a major force.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.
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Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse.
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We suffered a setback and there were too many trades until Dave Taylor came along and Charlie Simmer.
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I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends itself to an artistic reflection. I always aim to look directly at what I'm dealing with. I think it's a task of dramatic art to confront us with things that in the entertainment industry are usually swept under the rug.
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Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
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Modern political speechwriting is certainly a skill, and one that requires experience and practice to master.
