Alex Winter Quotes
The film, even when we were making it in that budget range, which was really a coup - we got it made because we pitched it to the studio head, Joe Roth.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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The San Gabriel Mountains rise like a rampart at the edge of the city, safeguarding more than 500,000 acres of mature forests, mountain streams, dramatic waterfalls, and towering peaks that reach over 9,000 feet. These untamed places attract bighorn sheep, mountain lions, and other threatened or endangered species.
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I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.
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Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
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The value of small business contracting is indisputable. These firms bring healthy competition to the federal market to drive down prices. They are our nation's innovators and job creators, and securing a federal contract helps them grow and offers more benefit to the economy.
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I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring.
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Things are fluid in this world, and if you don't remain fluid, you get lost in the sauce.
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I think the most important thing we as writers can do is figure out how we define what success will mean to us and focus on that.
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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
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I don't think I'm severely politically active. I care deeply, and I have my strong personal beliefs. I think America is dancing on thin ice. But I think it's bigger even than a political issue. I wonder about the evolution of the human race and spirit and what our goals and reasons for living are.
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In Japan, a company worker's position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.
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Part of the reason why people get radicalized is because they feel they are disenfranchised; that they not there; that they are bullied. But if they are represented, they can't go and say to themselves: 'Oh, this society hates us!'
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I don't really have a dream collaboration.
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The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship.
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I think you just have to take the bad with the good and you're going to get hurt more, but it's worth it.
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The Hindu civilisation is a diabolical contrivance to enslave humanity. Its proper name would be infamy.
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As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.
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Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.
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I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.
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The film, even when we were making it in that budget range, which was really a coup - we got it made because we pitched it to the studio head, Joe Roth.
