Alistair MacLeod Quotes
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.
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When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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I never met a stripe I didn't like.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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I am fortunate to have only worn one shirt in my career. It is something that is fundamental to me. It is something I have always wanted: to be one of these few who wear only one shirt - a fan and a player of the same team.
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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
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Filling a need is not merely good business; it's a basic attitude towards life. If you see a need, do whatever you can to meet that need.
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We collaborate on everything. I'm involved in the writing and pre-production. There's a whole bunch of people who keep in touch at every step about everything.
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It's probably unprecedented for a filmmaker simply to take the writers' script and treat it as the instructions on the package. What really happens is you pretty much suppress your own instincts - and your own views on the matter - and write things the way filmmakers would like to have them, though the filmmakers often don't know what they want. They can only find out by reading what you do.
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Wok cooking is intimidating, but it's the most versatile and handy tool in your kitchen.
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You adjust what you do depending on the actor. You evolve a vocabulary and a way of language and talking with each actor.
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I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.
