Alvin Ailey Quotes
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Funny is an attitude.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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I don't like to direct myself.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.
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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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Film is the toughest one for me, as there are many fingers in the pot, so it can be disappointing. However, to have your work seen on such a large scale, that's a very exciting prospect.
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I have a family I love. They tend to say, 'Great job!' Or 'You work really hard! Good for you!' Or 'You look nice today!' Or 'Don't be ridiculous, order the fries!' Or 'You are hilarious.' That's all the family I need.
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Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember.
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'Trilogy' was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn't left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that's probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that's what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.
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In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.
