Alex Tizon Quotes
The stories I work on, especially for any length of time, do tend to become personal to me.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
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Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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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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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.
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Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.
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I thought it was time to add a little humor.
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
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Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.
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I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it.
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I sort of consider myself a Nigerian who spends a lot of time in the U.S.
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The stories I work on, especially for any length of time, do tend to become personal to me.
