Alvin Ailey Quotes
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
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I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.
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Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I've to take time out to work on my albums because I'm passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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I love anything to do with history.
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The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
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Obviously, I've been very lucky in general in my career, but I feel that I've been very lucky in terms of having directors come along at the right times who have taken me to the next level of where I needed to be.
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I guess the first big name I worked with was Sissy Spacek, and that was really interesting just because she's so incredible and I learned so much from just watching her. But she's also so unassuming that I loved working with her. It wasn't like working with a star, it was Sissy. Not a big deal.
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Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself.
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Nothing personal; I just don't have people over.
