Alfonso Cuaron Quotes
Experiencing this film in 2-D is only getting about 20 percent of the experience of 'Gravity.'
Quotes to Explore
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.
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At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much pressure on these kids to even play spring football. We need to get the African-American players back in the game, which I think would make it not only a better game, but more exciting and entertaining for everyone.
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My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.
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You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it.
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I don't think you're very strong unless you've cried a few tears. You've never really lived.
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Listen to John Coltrane. When he plays 'A Love Supreme,' that guy is totally into himself.
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Experiencing this film in 2-D is only getting about 20 percent of the experience of 'Gravity.'
