Alexander Walker Quotes
In the days of Gary Cooper, James Stewart etc, film stars personified the better aspects of human nature.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party.
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I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.
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We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.
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It's a modern world we live in, with everything at our fingertips, and if it's not at our fingertips, you can dot-com anything.
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At the end of the day, things don't get better unless you continue to invest in your workforce. And I've not heard any Republican talk about education and the investment in the future workforce.
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Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
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In the days of Gary Cooper, James Stewart etc, film stars personified the better aspects of human nature.
