Alfonso Cuaron Quotes
A lot of the films I like are more than fantasies - they're movies fascinated by the technology of space exploration, and they try to honor the laws of physics. I watched the Gregory Peck movie 'Marooned' over and over when I was a kid.

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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
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I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
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All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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If any Republican nominee wants to run on the idea that borrowing money and printing it up and sending it to foreign countries that often hate us and burn our flag and think it's a good idea, feel free to run on that issue. But it's not really popular with the people.
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The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.
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Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens.
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For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition. The current intensification of global economic integration has demonstrated that there is enough knowledge, technology and capital to bring development to all the people of the world.
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A lot of the films I like are more than fantasies - they're movies fascinated by the technology of space exploration, and they try to honor the laws of physics. I watched the Gregory Peck movie 'Marooned' over and over when I was a kid.