Art Alexakis Quotes
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I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
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I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.
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With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.
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Evil report carries further than any applause.
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I actually think I need 'Homeland' rehab. And that Ray Donovan. I think I've watched every episode more than once. Liev Schreiber, Jeffrey Wright and Jon Voight have made me fall in love with acting again.
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The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
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Chance explorations on search engines do not 'accidentally' lead users to extremist websites.
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Go to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, or any college and you'll see libraries, dormitories, and a lot of buildings that were a result of the generosity of fat cats.
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When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.
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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
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In the midst of events there is no perspective.
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(On his Catholic faith): 'Certainly it has been the rock on which I have always been able to rely in good times and in bad, and it is the lodestone of my life.'
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New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go there I immediately make travel plans.
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Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
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It's time to start believing - Oh yes.Believing who you are: You are a shining star.
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Oh, Bertie, if I ever called you a brainless poop who ought to be given a scholarship at some lunatic asylum, I take back the words.
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Presidents often disappoint, but first ladies rarely do.
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I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.
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I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
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Writing has been challenging at times but that's where all the growth is. I know I'm in the right place if it's difficult. Something a British writer said to me once was: "If the project doesn't make him wobble, he doesn't take it." You have to be uncomfortable to grow.
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If you can't say it in three minutes, I don't want to know about it.
