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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To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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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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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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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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We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck one rainforest then move, drain one area of resources and move onto another, but climate change is global.
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It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.
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The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film.
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As we struggle to overcome our troubles, we are making history and fulling our destiny. Keep pressing!
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People have talents that are different. Where does the creative flow come from - inside us or from a higher power? I don't ask any questions. I just write it down.
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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.
