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Alan J. Pakula Quotes

Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: April 7, 1928 - November 19, 1998

Topics

Looking Hands Actor Realize Faces

In my life, there have been a lot of people who weren't there for me, so to now have people counting on me is awesome.

Life People Me My Life Now Awesome

I've never considered myself an actor; I get much more immediate satisfaction singing. If you sing good, people clap. On television, you never know whether you've done well or not.

Good Myself People Singing You Know

Being a recording artist, selling music, selling concerts out, having a reality show, starting film; it's great, it's beautiful.

Music Beautiful Great Reality Artist

The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience.

Andre Kostelanetz

Seeing Audience Advantage Conductor

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Small Things Organization Small You

I quickly learned that asking if an interview space was wheelchair accessible was a bad idea; it gave a potential employer an immediate bad impression. It was either a black mark against my name, or a straight up discussion of why I wouldn't be able to work there because they had no wheelchair access.

Work Space Black Potential Name Bad

I was from the bush, watching Greg Norman on TV, but it was a world away.

World Watching Away TV Bush Norman

And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.

Way Started Working Translation Most

In France we have a saying, 'Joie de vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.

Mireille Guiliano

Life Great Looking Saying Language

When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.

Joyce Carol Oates

Words Me Writing Thought Way First

The coolest gift I've ever gotten from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it had a picture of General Wade Hampton, who my oldest son is named after. It's a collector's item and came with a case and a stand and everything.

Son Gift Stand Picture Knife Mint

I'm sort lucky in that for me, I'm a writer now. I started as an actor but I'm a writer and so things like 'Wilfred' and shows like that are where I escape to.

Me Now Escape Actor Lucky Started

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