Alice Miller Quotes
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
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I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
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I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.
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The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots - create a ceaseless buzz.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.
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When people say Jerry Lee Lewis invented rock n' roll, they forget Little Richard. People talk about Elvis Presley and forget he was singing black music. I don't blame Elvis. It was the music business figuring it could make more money from this music if it weren't presented from the original source.
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The biggest misconception about Black Lives Matter is that BLM is just one entity; Black Lives Matter is an organization and a network. We are a part of the movement, but we are not the movement.
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Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change.
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Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.
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Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy.