Alexander Theroux Quotes
Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way.
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Pragmatics studies the factors that govern our choice of language in social interaction and the effects of our choice on others.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.
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Thought is a garment and the soul's a bride That cannot in that trash and tinsel hide: Hatred of God may bring the soul to God.
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Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
