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 one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.
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No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
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They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.
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I don't know if I'd want to be a Secret Service agent. In the movies, it's exciting and romantic and all that. Really, most of their job is standing in a hallway for 12 hours making sure somebody doesn't come through a doorway off of a stairwell.
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When someone isn't ready we must not try to force them out. People are being bullied and committing suicide because they're gay and it's horrible.
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Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?
