Alex Pareene Quotes

For the cable news guest, nothing happens for a while until suddenly everything happens very quickly. After you receive your television face, you stand around for a while, ignored, until you're sat down at a desk and asked to argue with strangers.

Alex Pareene

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He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really.

Simon Callow

PeopleSaidAlwaysVoicesCartoons

I was born in Puerto Rico - I used to sit in the sun until I looked like a piece of bacon. It's a wonder now that I don't look like an old wallet. I'm a very fortunate person.

Rita Moreno

SunLookWonderBornPersonNow

I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.

Ruth Negga

IdentityPeopleBecomeOwnBeen

Since 2001, I've done what every elected official should be doing in government right now. My staff and I took a look at the books, thought outside the box and proposed reforms.

Mike Quigley

GovernmentThoughtDoingLookDone

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

William J. Clinton

HopeInterestingSayThey SayMine

When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.

Placido Domingo

YouMoreNeverOrchestraWorking

I think of the Tycho sound as something separate from the band. I think the methodology and approach to production I use on the Tycho records can be applied to a lot of things. But from a performance and songwriting perspective, yes, Tycho is a live band.

Tycho

LivePerspectivePerformanceThink

I love doing films, action films, anything I can get into that is produced at a high level, really use my skills.

Tito Ortiz

LoveActionDoingI CanSkillsHigh

Ironically, it was because I was raised as a Muslim in the South, that I realised the value in being true to who you really are. I've just got so many things going on inside. I don't know how to resolve all of them other than being true to who I am.

Noureen DeWulf

I AmValueYouKnowTrueResolve

The person who should really write an appreciation of the late great Dom DeLuise is Burt Reynolds, who, even more than Mel Brooks, made of the jolly, beanie wearing fat man a side-kick and a legend.

Rich Cohen

GreatManAppreciationLegendFat

Why is our own participation in scapegoating so difficult to perceive and the participation of others so easy? To us, our fears and prejudices never appear as such because they determine our vision of people we despise, we fear, and against whom we discriminate.

Rene Girard

FearVisionPeopleEasyWhyNever

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Henry David Thoreau

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