Alice James Quotes
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!
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My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.
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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
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I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
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If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.
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When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
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I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.
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My dreams are all follies.
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Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?
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I love edgy comedy. 'Coming to America' still gets me and 'Friday.' I watch old Richard Pryor stand-up on VHS, too.
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I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.
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The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
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I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
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The thing that's wonderful about social media is that we are able to give a voice to the voiceless and to help educate each other. I benefit from it as much as I provide those lessons.
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The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.
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The leader who loves books that tell him he is great and right may be worse than the leader who does not love books at all.
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I really hate being recognised. I'm quite a shy person, and I'm not very good at talking to strangers. So when people come up to me in the street, I just find it quite awkward. I don't really know what to say to them.
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Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.
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Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?
