Alexa Von Tobel Quotes
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Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.
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Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.
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The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.
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When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day.
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I started to model because I thought I could use it as an excuse to others, like, 'Yeah, I'm tall because I'm a model.'
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Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.
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I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.
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That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.
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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
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I can't sing but I can understand wanting to keep a balance, trying to pursue dreams, while creating a stable environment for my children.
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No one knows me in the States because the movies have been released in such an awkward, irregular fashion, all by different distributors. There is no continuity.
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Writing is like carrying a fetus.
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I'd been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite happened.
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Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.
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I was at Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco hiking when a boulder came hurling down the mountainside and smashed my left hand. When I looked at my mangled bloody fingers, I had a strange reaction. 'Thank God I will never have to play again,' I said. The fact is that dedication to one's art does involve a sort of enslavement.
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I'm the first Icelandic director who started working on U.S. movies. There are others behind me now, but it's like when Bjork opened the door for Icelandic musicians to work abroad. We're such a closed-off country, but Bjork broke the spell. And I'm glad it was a woman who did it. She showed us we could break this barrier.
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My films have a bold interpretation. They are unapologetic about showing intimacy. Going by the number of people who come to watch my films, this is what our target audience yearns for.
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And that's just one year (of dropouts). Take 10 years of dropouts and you can see the even greater cost.
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I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves someone from drowning, and that person then goes out and releases a virus that kills a million people. Imagine the moral implications of that.
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Manage your spending by creating and sticking to a budget.
