Alfonso Cuaron Quotes

There are fewer established rules in the way you tell a story for commercials than in features. It's a great little short story you get to play with.

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• It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.

  

  Ian Hacking
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• I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.

  

  A. Scott Berg
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  • School

• That penetrating gaze, that intelligence; it's hard not to be anthropomorphic when you're looking at a great ape - at any primate - but especially with gorillas. They're just so magnificent.

  

  K. A. Applegate
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  • Looking
  • Intelligence

• In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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• On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
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• The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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  • Nature
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• My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.

  

  Dan Gable
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  • Dad
  • Mom

• Every day that I live, I try to find the beauty in things.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

  

  Taylor Swift
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  • Love

• I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.

  

  J Mascis
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  • Always
  • Hearing

• Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

  

  Victor Hugo
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  • Believe

• Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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  • Achievement

• I am not here to beat anyone. I am here to make a name for myself, and I am glad to work with great directors. I don't believe in the term 'next superstar.'

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
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  • Believe

• What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
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  • Doing

• I'm not sure my achievements have been 'great.'

  

  Sally Phillips
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  • Sure
  • Achievements

• I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
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  • Family
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• I think 'Pretty Little Liars' is going to be hugely popular for adults, for kids, for girls, for guys, you know, something for everyone to look at, and the stories are going to be great. There's suspense every week. The friendship is really fun to watch. I think it's going to have something for everybody.

  

  Laura Leighton
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  • Kids
  • Fun

• And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
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  • May
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• Playing sports is great when you're young. It teaches you how to focus, how to direct your energy, how not to think about a million other things that are going on.

  

  Elsa Hosk
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  • Energy
  • Focus

• For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.

  

  Jackie Chan
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  • Money
  • Financial

• If you gauge how you're doing on whether somebody is responding vocally or not, you're up a creek. You can't do that; you kind of have to be inside of your work and play the scene. And tell the story every day. Tell the story. Tell the story. Regardless of how people are responding, I'm going to tell the story.

  

  Billy Porter
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  • Work

• Or as an ook comth of a litel spir, So thorugh this lettre, which that she hym sente, Encressen gan desir, of which he brente.

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer
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• I love yoga. I don't do it as much as I'd like to, but I feel wonderful when I do.

  

  Lily Cole
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• There are fewer established rules in the way you tell a story for commercials than in features. It's a great little short story you get to play with.

  

  Alfonso Cuaron
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