Alexis Korner Quotes
I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.
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The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.
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I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
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I've worked with David Lynch since I was 17, and working with him is home and family; being around Alexander Payne is home and family, Jonathan Demme. There are directors... Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson... They are directors where I create homes.
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My main incentive now is to be so successful that I can get a private jet and sit with the pilot. I got upgraded to first class the other week, but even there I was still scared. I could be massaged for the whole flight and still think I'm going to die.
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The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer.
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People used to say my son looked like a Mexican Biggie. And when he was first born, memories of Biggie... you know, we didn't always have the greatest days. For at least half the length of our marriage we were separated, so everyday was definitely not a good day.
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I don't feel I'm better than any man out there or that I have anything to teach, and the more I learn about myself, the less comfortable I feel saying anything at all.
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Acting for the Indian audience is surely on my bucket list; it may take some time, though.
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I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.
