Alfie Allen Quotes
I definitely feel like I had a different upbringing to a lot of other people, but not in a bad - or good - way.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
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All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.
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We have just been working hard to have people to come out to vote and to make sure people understand how important the election is.
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Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.
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It's kind of a catch-22 now because since the 'Da Vinci Code,' I have access to places and people that I didn't have access to before, so that's a lot of fun for somebody like me, but I'm always trying to keep a secret. I don't want people to know what I'm writing about.
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We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.
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So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!
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I've always been a big advocate of making shows affordable because a lot of these bottle-service clubs and events are geared toward really expensive experiences. Club music is for everyone, and it drives me crazy that people are getting priced out.
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Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.
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Diversity in the industry is very lacking, and equal opportunity comes very far and few between for people of color.
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The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine. Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.
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You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.
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Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.
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Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.
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Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
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They were so good that you just had to sing the song to them once and they got it. It's amazing. Sometimes it didn't come out the way you wanted, but it was good.
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Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit.
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Conservatives are those who worship dead radicals.
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With Obamacare's fate in jeopardy, Democrats have no solutions to solve the mess they forced upon Americans.
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I definitely feel like I had a different upbringing to a lot of other people, but not in a bad - or good - way.
