Alistair Brownlee Quotes
As a family, we were always active. Lots of walking, lots of running as well as riding bikes with dad.
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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I don't do negative things.
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Women drive box office.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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I just feed off the energy of the audience.
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I like to do Pilates.
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I certainly never saw myself as posh.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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My tomb shall bless and speak to the needs of my devotees.
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Writing screenplays is not my business. I've written half a dozen, and maybe half of those were made. But it was never a satisfying experience. It was just work. You're an employee. You would be told what to do. Studio execs would cross out my dialogue and put in their dialogue.
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The manipulation of what's actually portrayed in the media, through the legal system, is pretty shocking, actually. You can see how someone you would never know can make a public figure look like a bad guy or a good guy just from the little information they let you know. My advice is to research everything. Don't just hide behind your Facebook posts. Research everything.
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The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique.
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Florenz Ziegfeld, to us and our family, was just a delightful person. My sisters, Mary and Pearl, my brother Charlie and I all worked for him, and he treated us just beautifully, almost like a father. When I went with my mother up to his office, he was always gentlemanly and kindly. He was sort of a quiet person.
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As a family, we were always active. Lots of walking, lots of running as well as riding bikes with dad.
