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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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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Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
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Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school. I loved the whole slacker look, like, 'Hey, I don't care, whatever,' but if I didn't turn my homework in, I would panic.
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I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.
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My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.
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Pop music I have always loved best.
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The first series of 'McMafia' is very Alex Godman-centric and could continue to be, but we haven't even begun to explore the Middle East or Africa or even South America in detail. One of our ambitions would be to drop into some of these other places and, by doing so, bring the audience into a world that they wouldn't necessarily have been in.
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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.
