Alice Barrett Quotes
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
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The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.
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I've grown up by the beach all my life, and I almost get anxiety if I haven't been swimming for a couple weeks or a month. It kind of builds up, so I try and get out as much as possible.
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I always gravitate towards the independent side of things, just because those are the stories I always fall in love with, but you don't really get paid, and living in Los Angeles is expensive, and I have a mortgage to pay. So it's good to jump onto a studio film and then in all my other time do small passion projects.
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There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.
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I always put on a brave face when I was the most terrified, the most trapped and out of control.
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In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.
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I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes.
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I'm going to go do a Netflix series. It's straight-to-series, 10 episodes, probably go for three seasons. I'm going to direct the pilot and hopefully the last episode of the first season. The show is 'Seven Seconds.'
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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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I am always relaxed.
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Even when it comes to zippers and buttons, Italy reigns supreme. The luxury market is ours, as demonstrated by the voracity with which various foreign conglomerates are buying up the jewels of our manufacturing sector.
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One of the Sunday newspapers asked me to make my favorite dish, and they photographed me holding it in the kitchen. It was roasted salmon with roasted vegetables. That's not cooking; that's putting things in a pan. It looked quite nice, but I'm not saying it was good.
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In the areas where FGM is going down, it has been addressed in a violence against women framework. It's a gender power control issue, and it is not something you can just educate people out of. It requires people to think that if they do it, there are ramifications. We cannot just rely on people's good will.
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When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
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“I think the worst reaction that I could get from someone to my photos is some sort of mediocre, middle-range reaction where they really get nothing from it, and they want to move on to the next thing. I'd rather they be horrified, pissed off at me, extremely disgusted at how bad of an artist I am.”
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It's not an easy thing to be let go.
