Alexi Zentner Quotes
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I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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I work out every day - and my daily routine is a mix of functional and strength training.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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I'm not graceful.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.
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I make good music for long journeys.
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I've really tried to use the power of film to effect change.
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When you build characters from the outside in, they become, oftentimes they become like 'Saturday Night Live' characters or they become like caricatures of the character.
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Although my parents have never been the kind to hint around about grandchildren, I can think of no better tribute to them than giving them some.... I can't help thinking that the cycle is not complete until I can introduce them to a child of their child. And I can think of no better comfort when they are gone than to know that something of them lives on, not only in me but in my children.
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The story of trying to live up to the myth is more interesting than the myth itself.
