- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ale Quotes
A small, varied set of reflections.
This is a modest, loosely connected collection, grounded mainly in a historical comparison of the scale of wartime scientific effort between two countries. Other entries touch briefly on film ratings and the kinds of scripts actors look for. Related quotes appear in our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
With a computer, there are too many choices, and I always liked working within limits. You know, if you look at Mozart, who had this strict classical framework - an allegro, an andante, a scherzo and a finale - you see that within that formula, he got results he might never have gotten if he had all the options in the world.
- Consulting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I take great pride in portraying a strong female character who is independent and can take care of herself. I don't think we get to see that enough in television.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nina Simone sacrificed so much to be as bold as she was about being black and about being female in an era where that could have cost her life.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I talk a lot about the men in my family because my mother died when I was little, and my grandmother died when my aunts were little, so we didn't have those kinds of heads of household. But all the members of our household who were female were sort of living as equal and as wise as the male figures in our family.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a little bit damaged in about 15 different ways, and it's been nice that no particular damaged area has become a major issue. I'm a more than moderately healthy 65-year-old male who has gotten away with a lot of stuff.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get recognized in the street really frequently, which is really shocking. I'm excruciatingly wary of any female under the age of 19. Even when some of them come up to me, they're usually very cordial, nice and polite.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my town, I had only one adult American male role model: my father. I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020