Alexandre Aja Quotes
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.
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Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.
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The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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'Heroine' is about a declining and imbalanced superstar - a very brave and bold role. I wanted to test whether I could carry a role like this. I have given 200 per cent to this role. She's a very complex character, very aggressive, manipulative and bold, yet she's very fragile.
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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I'm definitely inspired by old hip-hop.
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So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.
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I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.
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I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'
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Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
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I have no tax breaks or corporate interests to be supported by Barack Obama.
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More and more, as civilization develops, we find the primitive to be essential to us. We root into the primitive as a tree roots into the earth. If we cut off the roots, we lose the sap without which we can't progress or even survive. I don't believe our civilization can continue very long out of contact with the primitive.
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All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie.
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I don't think of myself as a movie star. I'm a movie worker. I come from a railroad family. I come from the corn.
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The love scenes that worked, regardless of the director, were the ones where the actors weren't fearful. When somebody was fearful, you could see it right away. It takes you out of the story, and that's to be avoided at all costs.
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A movie like 'The Last House On The Left' would be very hard to do in Europe.
