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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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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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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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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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 am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he'll become.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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It's rewarding to be recognized by the fans and other players for my abilities and to be able to represent the Arizona Cardinals fans from around the world.
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If the Rolling Stones are playing a concert across town, that's not my audience anyways. But I do find that there's a lot of people coming back around to see me again.
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In the days of Gary Cooper, James Stewart etc, film stars personified the better aspects of human nature.
