Alexander Mackendrick Quotes
The best way to learn how to work with actors is to have had experience of trying to act yourself - it will teach you humility if nothing else.
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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I love looking through magazines, and you know, I love getting dressed up to go to events and stuff.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
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I choose work with the people I like to work with.
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As a director, you want to work with great writers.
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The basic idea of karma is not punishment. Karma presents the opportunity for development; to make use of opportunities that were not taken advantage of, to fill in gaps of ignorance, to enlarge understanding through experience, to do what should be done.
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All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense.
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Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy.
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The best way to learn how to work with actors is to have had experience of trying to act yourself - it will teach you humility if nothing else.
