Alice Dellal Quotes
My brother and my dad always used to shave their hair, and I remember thinking, 'Why can't I do the same?'
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.
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I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
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This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
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For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
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If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!
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Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
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New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name.
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I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
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We modest Gentlemen don't want for much success among the women.
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By the time the discussion starts about a movie, it's like bringing up an old boyfriend. It's like, 'I don't even remember exactly what he was like, and now we have to talk about it?'
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Right whales - so named because they were 'the right whale to kill' - grazed the waters off Nantucket as if they were seagoing cattle, straining the nutrient-rich surface of the ocean through the bushy plates of baleen in their perpetually grinning mouths.
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I think that, for so much of our matriculation through American society, black people sort of feel like outsiders.
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My brother and my dad always used to shave their hair, and I remember thinking, 'Why can't I do the same?'
