Alison Owen Quotes

Movies alone have the hideous capacity to do everything for you. So in directing movies, you have to figure how to leave things out - because when you leave things out, you evoke the imaginative participation of the audience.

Alison Owen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: producer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 18, 1961

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I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do.

Joe Morton

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An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it.

Andrei Tarkovsky

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There's a false perception that women in Africa somehow don't love their babies they way we do, don't grieve their loss the way we would. That is simply not true.

Melinda Gates

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When you make mistakes, when you're wrong, you should admit you're wrong and ask people to forgive you.

John Lewis

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There are a lot of us that want to see limitations on refugee resettlement programs.

Jeff Duncan

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I don't know if there is someone for everyone. Every person is so different and I don't think there is an exact match for every person. If you meet someone and they have 20 of the 25 things you want in a person, then you're pretty lucky.

Amanda Bynes

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For myself, it's trying to do my best in whatever I am doing. At this time, it is boxing; then when I get home, I want to be the best father, the best husband, the best man I can be.

Sonny Bill Williams

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I've been thinking of humorous things since I was... I can't remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.

Steven Wright

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Sometimes I listen to '60s or oldies stations to see if they're going to play a Beach Boys song.

Mike Love

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I would love to dive into an indie film based on the streets of East Los Angeles where I grew up. If that doesn't come my way soon, I think I just might have to write it myself.

Michael Trevino

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The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.

Josephine Baker

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But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?

Diana Nyad

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