Alice Lowe Quotes
I love doing comedy, and that's the thing I will always go back to, really, but I'd love to have the freedom to do sort of 'meaty' roles but also have the freedom to do the sort of films I want to make, like what Woody Allen does. You forget he's funny because you're so gripped by the story, but they still make you laugh.
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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I try to do my best.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
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To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.
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Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.
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My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
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As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and a vague idea of how the scene might work, and you then add funny words or change the script. I'm not the world's best writer or the world's best actor, but I can do that thing where I can fix - or ruin - fix-slash-ruin, add quirk, add value.
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My favorite app is 'StumbleUpon,' because it just gives you interesting things that are sometimes exactly the stuff I'm interested in and sometimes just silly and funny.
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Politics is everywhere. It’s in your shirt, it’s in your pants. It’s everywhere.
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I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.
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I love doing comedy, and that's the thing I will always go back to, really, but I'd love to have the freedom to do sort of 'meaty' roles but also have the freedom to do the sort of films I want to make, like what Woody Allen does. You forget he's funny because you're so gripped by the story, but they still make you laugh.
