Alex Timbers Quotes
I think we live in an era without a predictable career path. Everybody's doing more, doing more at the same time, doing more faster. As such, individual projects can have wildly different developmental trajectories.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
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There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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I think Mickey Gall's going to be really good.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!
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As a writer of historical fiction, I believe you don't want to fictionalize gratuitously; you want the fictional aspects to prod and pressure the history into new and exciting reactions.
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I'm a vegetarian, so I eat a whole bunch of avocados a lot of the time.
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For proof that our culture has gone to the dogs, look no further than the bizarrely parental ways many Americans talk about our furry friends.
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From the fix'd place of Heaven she saw Time like a pulse shake fierce Through all the worlds. Her gaze still strove Within the gulf to pierce Its path; and now she spoke as when The stars sang in their spheres.
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I think we live in an era without a predictable career path. Everybody's doing more, doing more at the same time, doing more faster. As such, individual projects can have wildly different developmental trajectories.
