Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes

Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: chilean
  • Birth: February 17, 1929

Topics

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The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt.

Andrew Davies

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I backpacked around the world and went to places like Mexico City and Pakistan, where I'm like, 'Oh. Things aren't quite as good.'

Jeffrey Skoll

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I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.

Tom Stoppard

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I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.

Mary Oliver

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My favourite programme of all time is 'Weeds'; the first three or four series are perfection.

Miranda Raison

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I wasn't very good at school and appalling at English.

Jonathan Anderson

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I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.

Dick Bruna

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Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.

Douglas Sirk

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I've been very lucky, this is my 30th year on TV.

Craig Charles

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Indeed, every book on my shelves is a key to a little vault of memories.

Anthony Doerr

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There is a class of persons whose souls are essentially non-conductors to the electricity of sentiment, and whose minds seem to be filled with their own train of thinking, convictions, and purposes to the exclusion of everything else.

William Godwin

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I don't have hard edges.

Phil Gingrey

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