Alfie Allen Quotes
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Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.
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I would've been a really big silent movie star.
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I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
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A tree grows. If you're staying the same, something is wrong. You're not alive.
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My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.
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We all have a stake in ensuring that all students have the schools they deserve and that communities are leading this effort, not being left behind. To do that, we must challenge unchecked charter expansion and the forces driving it.
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I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
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In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.
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Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.
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I have to take care of myself. It's about self-preservation.
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Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins a new work is to lay down the barriers and limitations; he decides upon a certain composition, a certain key, a certain relation of creatures or objects to each other. He is never free, and the more splendid his imagination, the more intense his feeling, the farther he goes from general truth and general emotion.
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While in the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them, as anybody who has a knowledge of Chinese literature will testify.
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I have no complaints about my childhood.
