Art Alexakis Quotes

I don't talk about my past; people ask me about it. I've done things I'm ashamed of, but one thing I can honestly say is that things I've done that I regret, I've never done twice. I work really hard at that.

Art Alexakis

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• Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.

  

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• There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.

  

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• I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.

  

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• Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.

  

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• Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.

  

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• Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.

  

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• Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.

  

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• I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.

  

  Imran Amed
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• If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.

  

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• I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.

  

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• No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.

  

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• I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.

  

  Pat Buckley
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• Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.

  

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• I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.

  

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• You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

  

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• It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

  

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• My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.

  

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• Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.

  

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  • Discipline

• I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.

  

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• You can make movies and not particularly get along with the people you're working with but, when they say 'Action,' your job is to make it look like you're in love.

  

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• People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

  

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• I don't talk about my past; people ask me about it. I've done things I'm ashamed of, but one thing I can honestly say is that things I've done that I regret, I've never done twice. I work really hard at that.

  

  Art Alexakis
  • People
  • Work
  • Done