Alexandre Aja Quotes
I think the violence in 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'High Tension' is much more traumatic than 'Piranha.'
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I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
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We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.
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I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.
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I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.
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The third year of MASH was when I realized I was a hit.
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Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
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If you look at people who have an iPhone or Android and are under 40 and are dissatisfied with their bank, it's actually quite a large market.
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Where every moment is about truth and I think it's a great challenge every night. That's what really drove me to wanting to do theatre, and it's great.
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Tennis was a white, upper-class sport, and I wanted it to be treated like other sports were.
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I think the violence in 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'High Tension' is much more traumatic than 'Piranha.'
