Art Alexakis Quotes
You don't have control of the car, but you can drive it. Life takes you where it wants you to go and where you need to go.
Quotes to Explore
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.
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To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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I'm kind of a reluctant guru.
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I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.
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The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.
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The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.
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I never really grasped how big it was when I initially got 'Alexander'; I thought, 'Ooh, this is exciting,' but after I got home, I looked back and thought, 'That was an incredible experience.' I got to work with some massive names in Hollywood, and I learnt so much, and then it really kind of struck me how life-changing it was.
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Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.
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Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
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Mercury is most commonly recognized as a developmental toxin, threatening to young children and fetuses as they develop their nervous system. Prenatal exposure to even low levels of mercury can cause life-long problems with language skills, fine motor function, and the ability to pay attention.
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It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
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For me, the greatest thing a movie can do is rivet you while you're watching but also give you something to chew on for days and weeks after you've seen it.
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I have no problem with someone who disagrees with my life. That's your right to feel that way.
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If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.
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I don't have a partner, so I take care of the mortgage by myself, and I was thinking, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to sell the house or find a new career.' I was not in a good place, but it was a real spur to get 'The Girl on the Train' right. I had to nail it and do it really well. It really concentrates the mind, that kind of thing.
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Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me.
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You don't have control of the car, but you can drive it. Life takes you where it wants you to go and where you need to go.
