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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Senator Vitter and I had a track record of working together on some key issues, restoring funding for our waterways and ports; he assisted me on the Senate side with the veterans' clinics. We have a working relationship where we look out for the interests of Louisiana.
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I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
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We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
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I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene.
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I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity.
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Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?
