Alexander Hanson Quotes
Often you get wonderful singers who maybe aren't as strong as actors, or you get wonderful actors who can't sing very well.
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I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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I didn't know what was going through my mind.
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The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Christlike feelings for all of Heavenly Father's children. When we develop this concern for the condition of others, we then will communicate with them as the Savior would.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.
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Cartola is an artist from Brazil who didn't record until much later in his life, but had a big influence on a lot of famous artists down there, like Gilberto Gil. I discovered his music recently when I was in Brazil.
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If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience.
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I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth.
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I would like to think that Ive left the world of cardiovascular surgery better than when I found it. That would be a suitable epitaph.
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Often you get wonderful singers who maybe aren't as strong as actors, or you get wonderful actors who can't sing very well.
