Alex Quotes
The most relevant misadventure that I had, as a kid, is when I remember being pretty convinced that leprechauns were real and that I was going to catch one.
I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.
I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.
With every project I start out on, there's no footage. It's always a big slog to find the footage.
I didn't always know I wanted to do music, I got more into music in high school. I always sort of liked the idea of psychology so I thought of being a therapist or someone who helps other people.
There are one hundred glow-stars on my bedroom ceiling. (...) Glow-stars are strange. They make the ceiling disappear.
Well, if there's an infinite amount of chances for something to happen, then eventually it will happen - no matter how small the likelihood.
Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.
The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche.
I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.
I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France.
We are very focused this time and our preparation has been better. We maybe made one or two mistakes last time, but not this time.
The pace of the game demanded a referee who was fit. It is an indictment of our game. You see referees abroad who are as fit as butcher's dogs. We have some who are fit. He wasn't fit.
I'm a Pele fan from way back when I was a kid, and then there was always this thing later about Pele and Maradona. I was young and impressionable as a kid but it was always Pele for me.
Keeping players happy is not easy and I think anyone with a big squad will tell you that.
I used to have a saying that when a player is at his peak, he feels as though he can climb.
There has been a lot of expectation on Manchester City and with the spending they have done they have to win something. Sometimes you have a noisy neighbor and have to live with it.
Football management is such a pressurized thing - horse racing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.
I understand the intensity of the supporters. I wonder how they could turn up for work on Monday morning after we lost 5-1 to Manchester City.
Liverpool can play for only five minutes and win the game, that is the way they are. They pump the ball into the box and with good set-piece delivery they keep you under pressure.
I know that when I get in there and I leave that cage I will leave with more than I came in.
Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.
I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics.
I guess my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did, was the biggest record that I'll ever have.
If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.
A society or culture which is disposed to view the world in Manichean terms will be more vulnerable to control by propaganda.
If China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times larger than it is now.
