Alison Owen Quotes
People in third-world countries are less eager to see movies full of angst over existential problems, and who can blame them. They've got other fish to fry. They'd rather see a few great dance routines and the guy end up with the girl.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
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'Smart', in American usage, is slicker and sharper than 'intelligent'; faster off the mark and quicker on its feet than deep thought.
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If I were writing an article for the newspaper, it would be thesis statement, information, information, supporting arguments. That would be the setup. When I'm making a documentary, the pacing of the film and the way that you sort of switch from character to character - all of those are more about storytelling than straight journalism.
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I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.
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I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.
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School was hard for me. If there had been a school for the creative arts, I might have thrived, but... I needed that creative outlet so much. Also, I'm just bad with numbers.
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In the dating game, the world is difficult because people don't communicate, or they communicate, but then their actions speak louder than words.
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People in third-world countries are less eager to see movies full of angst over existential problems, and who can blame them. They've got other fish to fry. They'd rather see a few great dance routines and the guy end up with the girl.
