"When I'm shooting in other cities, I'm just trying to make it look like California."

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Source : "Alex Prager Predicts Disaster". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 29, 2012.

Alex Prager

#Cities Quotes #California Quotes #Trying Quotes

“[I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called for while they work. Such are the workers who all day stand or sit, stoop or are bent double, who run or ride or exercise their bodies in all sorts of [excess] ways. ... the harvest of diseases reaped by certain workers ... [from] irregular motions in unnatural postures of the body.”
“Some people love money and get into politics. If they love money so much, they should get into commerce, industry, or do whatever they want - it's no sin. But politics is for serving the people.”
“No matter how much you may want to think of HoldÃ©m as a card game played by people, in many respects it is even more valid to think of it as a game about people that happens to be played with cards.”
“My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.”
“Well, people have been wondering what's going to happen to the novel for two hundred years; its death has been announced many times. You know, I think the novel keeps redefining the world we live in. What you should look for in a novel is a window nobody else is looking out of, that nobody else can look through. What you look for is a voice. You pick up a novel by someone such as Faulkner or Hemingway and you just read three pages and you know who wrote it. And that's what one should demand of a novelist.”
“On tough days, you gotta have heart. Don't quit, whatever you do. Persevere.”
“Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive”
“Deliberando saepe perit occasio”

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