Alfonso Cuaron Quotes

I love L.A. I always have such a great time in L.A. The way I kind of define me and L.A. is the noise of the factory doesn't let me sleep well.

Alfonso Cuaron

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• I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.

  

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• When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.

  

  Jack Bowman
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• I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.

  

  Nas
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• No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?

  

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• A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
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• I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.

  

  R. Kelly
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• The military executes policy decisions.

  

  Jack Keane
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• Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • May
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• The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Different
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• Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

  

  Malcolm Arnold
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• Tonight, I want to say to every member of the democratic party, who believes in limited government, in personal opportunity and the united States constitution, and a safe and secure America, come home. To the Reagan Democrats, your party has left you. And the Republican party wants you, we welcome you back.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Home
  • America
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• And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Art
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• I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place called Oldham Theatre Workshop in my hometown.

  

  Olivia Cooke
  • Acting
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• I've always been interested in making movies.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
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• I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.

  

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• I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.

  

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• I think it's the actor's job - when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you've had success in - it's up to you as an actor. The industry will always want to hire you for what you were successful in last and what made money. But you can say no to that and look for other parts.

  

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• For me, graffiti writers were always the fascinating eccentrics of hip-hop culture. What they do is secretive by definition, and not remunerative in any way.

  

  Adam Mansbach
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• God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

  

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• The upper classes really shouldn't open their mouths on television. Whatever it is they're saying, all your brain actually hears is 'Tra la la, I live in a bubble, tra la la, murder a fox, tra la la, Conde Nast Traveller, tra la la, Kensington High Street, tra la la.' They should know their place and keep quiet.

  

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• Biographers search for traces, for evidence of activity, for signs of movement, for letters, for diaries, for photographs.

  

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• I can feel this pressure of living up to the expectations of people. I hope I can fulfill it.

  

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  • Hope

• I love L.A. I always have such a great time in L.A. The way I kind of define me and L.A. is the noise of the factory doesn't let me sleep well.

  

  Alfonso Cuaron
  • Time
  • Great
  • Sleep