Alexandre Aja Quotes
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Edmund Burke -
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.
Hanya Yanagihara -
As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.
Naveen Jain -
Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.
Sam Kinison -
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.
Kate Klise -
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.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.
Larry David -
Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
Brown Campbell -
'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.
Kareena Kapoor Khan -
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.
Garrett Hardin -
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Mahatma Gandhi -
So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.
Gavin DeGraw
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I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'
Daniel Breaker -
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.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I have no tax breaks or corporate interests to be supported by Barack Obama.
Adam McKay -
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
Baruch Spinoza -
I don't really watch all that much television, I have to say, because I'm so intimidated by how many channels there are. I really cannot find my way back to anything. But I'm compulsively addicted to '24.' I love that show.
Kate Beckinsale -
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Jacob Bronowski
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To be able to work with actors who are doing such good work, not only makes it easier for you, but it makes you better.
Eric Ladin -
We should not allow ourselves to believe that writers like Poe have more imagination than those who are content with describing things as they really are. It is surely easier to invent striking situations in this way than to tread the beaten track which intelligent minds have followed throughout the centuries.
Eugene Delacroix -
I like guys who, no matter what, are men.
Eric Dane -
At Cisco, I made every decision based on what was good for the company, and that pretty much ruined my marriage and my health.
Sandra Lerner -
So many things have to come together to get a creatively successful and financially successful film. Sometimes you'll have a movie that you're very proud of, and you think it transcended all of your expectations, but it doesn't come out at the right time. I have done movies that have never been released. That can be depressing.
Jeff Bridges -
A movie like 'The Last House On The Left' would be very hard to do in Europe.
Alexandre Aja