Eddie Alvarez Quotes
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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I love cooking and baking.
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There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
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I like myself still kind of being... because DJs used to be the background guy - the guy who was just doing the music - I see myself more as that guy than being on the stage.
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I'm a sucker for any guy with an accent with any kind.
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While it's important to accept failure and not let it bog you down, it's also perfectly acceptable to get upset about it as long as you remember that failure is a stepping stone in your journey that is getting you to where you need to be.
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After you shoot a day's work, you gotta see rushes, and then you have more meetings with the budgets, with your producers, with your designers. It's never-ending.
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The goal never changes. It's about beating the guy in front of you.
