Art Alexakis Quotes
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If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.
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If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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'Smart', in American usage, is slicker and sharper than 'intelligent'; faster off the mark and quicker on its feet than deep thought.
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I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
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I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times.
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I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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Too clever is dumb.
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The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.
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When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
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The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts.
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There just aren't many little guys who are good actors. They don't get the training; they don't go to RADA. There just aren't the parts for dwarfs, and if you like it or not, you're typecast as a dwarf.
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The second-class couple is far closer to what the audience is today. It's who we are.
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You can be the lead in a movie just for the sake of being a lead in a movie, or you can just be in a good movie.
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It's a pretty frantic world that we live in.
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If you live in L.A. long enough, you get into having a cool car.
