Alexander McQueen Quotes
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.
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When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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Sometimes I post something unwittingly that connects with women. But I never think, 'OK, let's take a shirtless picture for the girls.'
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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I wouldn't miss the opening of a door.
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.
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I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to... it still has to be real.
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Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
