Alfonso Cuaron Quotes

I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design.

Alfonso Cuaron

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• I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'

  

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• Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.

  

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• Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

  

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• As a child, I always wanted to be an actor. But as I grew older, the acting dream kind of faded away, and I took to studying a lot. A few years later, a relative of mine who really wanted me to try my hand at acting sent my photographs to a few production houses, and like they say, the rest is history.

  

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• I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

  

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• Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.

  

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• When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.

  

  Sam Worthington
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• There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

  

  A. J. Muste
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• I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.

  

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• It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

  

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• Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.

  

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• When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.

  

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• But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.

  

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• People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.

  

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• Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

  

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• Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.

  

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• Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

  

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• I was so fortunate to work closely with the designer Nolan Miller whilst on 'Dynasty' to create the wardrobe for Alexis Carrington Colby, and we had great fun sourcing outfits.

  

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• I don't care what anybody says, there's nothing like the cultural influence of hip-hop. For me, hip-hop culture is involved in everything - it's in me, in who I am, in how I dress, how I talk. It's in my son and my wife.

  

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• I'm a neat freak... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know?

  

  Jann Wenner
  • Mind

• One of the benefits of having an audience is that it requires a regimen, a need to create on a regular basis. I don't believe in waiting for the muse to visit.

  

  Keri Smith
  • Believe
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• The underworld, the old world, is the womb that gave birth to humanity. The journey from under the earth is the journey from ignorance to wisdom.

  

  Carrie Vaughn
  • Humanity
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• I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design.

  

  Alfonso Cuaron
  • Believe
  • Design
  • Journey