Top 100 Alvarez Quotes
#1. Even to an outsider like myself, not only in the theatre was such disunity evident, but in much else in government Spain. Alvarez del Vayo, Socialist Minister of Foreign Affairs, once asked, Why is it Spain's people are so great, but her leaders so small?
Langston Hughes
#2. I graduated. I did History of Art, you know, all those things - American Studies - and then I went to art school, and I did Joseph Alvarez in the art school.
Peter Beard
#3. She was attempting to flirt with him, in hopes he'd put in a good word for her with Captain Alvarez. Lost cause, Cadence, I thought. Flirting with a guy who has a boyfriend was unlikely to yield positive results.
Sophie Davis
#4. Tatiana Alvarez, who also became a queen of the wheels of steel in L.A., has now sold her incredible cross-dressing, reverse 'Tootsie' story to Warner Bros. in Hollywood, and hotshot producers Mike Medavoy, Brian Medavoy and Erwin More have reunited to turn it into a movie.
Robin Leach
#5. As long as I ride motorcycles, which God willing is another 50 years, I'll always have Alvarez in my heart. I'm hoping for 10 seasons of Sons of Anarchy.
Emilio Rivera
#6. 'Evil Dead' was such a big movie in my life. It's one of the few that I really remember when I watched it for the first time. I mean, I don't remember when I first saw 'The Empire Strikes Back,' and it's one of my favourite movies.
Fede Alvarez
#7. When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family.
Julia Alvarez
#8. In 'Clockwork Orange,' you're there with your eyes, watching all those things, your brain goes off, ahh, exposes you to so many things, and at the end of the day, it's just like a roller coaster. Why do you jump in a roller coaster? You want a thrill.
Fede Alvarez
#9. It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.
Al Alvarez
#10. We had some guys that abandoned their technique and abandoned some of the things that we just worked a month on,
Barry Alvarez
#11. My dad was very religious growing up and a little bit closed minded, and I think me being in the theater, two of my three sisters are dancers, so being in the arts world has changed and opened him up in a lot of ways.
Frankie J. Alvarez
#12. That's kind of my ideal sequel - a movie that continues the story, takes one character and moves on, and moves forward with that character that survived with the first one.
Fede Alvarez
#13. Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.
Al Alvarez
#14. Every day I spend in Hollywood, I start to realize how many films are made with no heart and no love. They just do it for the paycheck, and I cannot imagine making a film that way.
Fede Alvarez
#15. When you're a director you always feel weird with another director watching over your shoulder.
Fede Alvarez
#16. Reading is a way to take in the difficult situations and understand them. The whole point of reading a book in class is to have discussion about what these situations are like.
Julia Alvarez
#17. The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.
Al Alvarez
#18. Definitely my favorite cut is the one that got put out. That's my favorite version of the film, the one that I put in theaters. That's my directors cut, there's no question about it.
Fede Alvarez
#20. Usually you always see first cut is an extended version, because it's basically everything you shot, and you have that version and then you start cutting stuff out.
Fede Alvarez
#21. One of my first jobs was doing children's theater. I did it to get my union card.
Frankie J. Alvarez
#22. Because Ernest Lawrence's award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#23. I'm not much of a planner. I set a goal and there really is nothing else ... no plan B.
Eddie Alvarez
#24. I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#25. The Corona Extra brand was launched in Austin, Texas. From Austin, where it was exclusively for three or four months, it became more widely available in that state and in others, primarily in the southwest and western United States.
Carlos Alvarez
#26. I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death.
Manuel Alvarez Bravo
#27. You're like this frosting." She swiped another swirl of it on her finger, stood and leaned forward to touch it to his bottom lip. "Pretty, momentarily pleasurable, but with no real substance or sustenance.
Tracey Alvarez
#28. You look good, you feel good. You feel good, you fight good.
Eddie Alvarez
#29. When I received my B. S. degree in 1932, only two of the fundamental particles of physics were known.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#30. Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.
Al Alvarez
#31. The pity is not that there is a myth of Sylvia Plath but that the myth is not simply that of an enormously gifted poet whose death came carelessly, by mistake, and too soon.
Al Alvarez
#32. I'm a big fan of movies, but I'm a bigger fan of filmmaking itself. I fell in love with it when I was very young, and I have always loved to learn the craft, every aspect of it.
Fede Alvarez
#33. We hadn't lost morale. But when you fight for four quarters, it's tough to always bounce back. The offense kept us in the game the last two weeks and to get out with a win feels really good.
Barry Alvarez
#34. 'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
Fede Alvarez
#35. Honestly, when you're writing you try to stay on the story, on the character's mind, trying to throw stuff at them. There is danger, and the scares have to kick in the right places with the drama. And you try not to do too much to try to create those moments. Those moments create themselves.
Fede Alvarez
#36. I admit that for me love goes deeper than the struggle, or maybe what I mean is, love is the deeper struggle.
Julia Alvarez
#37. I think a good actor will always know the character better than anybody.
Fede Alvarez
#38. I'm pretty demanding with myself and my work, and I always put a lot of pressure on myself. I try to do the best job I can every time.
Fede Alvarez
#39. Corona Light has had very faithful stewardship from us from the very beginning in 1989.
Carlos Alvarez
#40. Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.
Julia Alvarez
#41. I write to find out what I am thinking.
I write to find out who I am.
I write to understand things.
Julia Alvarez
#42. Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.
Al Alvarez
#43. But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mistakes so you have to, it's all about where you're sitting at the table.
Al Alvarez
#44. Arthur Compton became my graduate advisor. He was the ideal graduate advisor for me: he came into my research room only once during my graduate career and usually had no idea how I was spending my time.
Luis W. Alvarez
#45. It's a convention, but in horror movies the female characters usually tend to believe easier in a supernatural event.
Fede Alvarez
#46. Don't plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.
Julia Alvarez
#47. I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death. - W. B. YEATS
Al Alvarez
#48. It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.
Fede Alvarez
#49. Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.
Fede Alvarez
#50. Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.
Al Alvarez
#51. No one gets a crystal ball, and you can't drive across the country looking in your rear view mirror.
Richard P. Alvarez
#52. Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought."
Luis Walter Alvarez
#53. Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.
Julia Alvarez
#54. Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty, and we dream of finding new secrets of nature as important and as exciting as those uncovered by our scientific heroes.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#55. We always talk about being a spark and swinging the momentum of the game and that swung it.
Barry Alvarez
#56. I try not to be spectacular with the camera. I try to be a witness of what's going on.
Fede Alvarez
#57. There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#58. There are the horror fans that love the 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, but I'm sure it's not all of them. Not all horror fans love 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, at least not me.
Fede Alvarez
#59. There's a reason people use CGI: it's cheaper and faster. I hate that.
Fede Alvarez
#60. Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.
Julia Alvarez
#61. It doesn't make any sense. If the SIM are policemen, secret or not, shouldn't we trust them instead of being afraid of them?
Julia Alvarez
#62. I'm inspired when I find out about something that I didn't know was a remake. An example is, of course, stuff like 'The Fly,' or 'The Thing,' or even 'The Blob.' For our generation, all those things, whether it was 'The Blob' or 'The Fly' or something else, we had no idea they were remakes.
Fede Alvarez
#64. If the president of the college had asked me what I thought about Dewey McLean, I'd say he's a weak sister. I thought he'd been knocked out of the ball game and had just disappeared, because nobody invites him to conferences anymore.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#65. Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to me." That could be the motto of literature!
Julia Alvarez
#66. [My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes and try to think of new problems to solve. I took his advice very seriously and have been glad ever since that he did.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#67. I thought that Hollywood was just for geniuses and that directors come from three generations of directors. I was worried that I was not up to the challenge of making a movie. Then realized that all a director has to do is know what he wants to do.
Fede Alvarez
#68. A photographer's main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer, past or present, instead of their own. Those photographers are blind.
Manuel Alvarez Bravo
#69. Rocks are the key to Earth history, because solids remember but liquids and gases forget.
Walter Alvarez
#70. I deliver babies for a living. I have certainly delivered more than 150 children in my lifetime, yet I'm always puzzled when I hear that one of those children I delivered has autism.
Manny Alvarez
#71. Around the lab I heard that publicity was measured in an absolute unit, the "kan". That unit was too large for ordinary application and a practical unit one one-thousandth of the size served in its place, the "millikan".
Luis W. Alvarez
#72. Schools provide safe spaces to talk about controversial issues, and literature presents characters portraying human experience in all its richness and contradictoriness.
Julia Alvarez
#73. I would favor a law that no one could ever buy a gun.
Anita Alvarez
#74. I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
Al Alvarez
#75. Chase is playing escort this morning. He gets cranky if we keep him waiting too long."
"We wouldn't want the man with the Taser to get cranky.
Amanda E. Alvarez
#76. In general I think the inspiration was to think about all those movies that I saw as a kid and never knew they were remakes, because I know there's probably another kid going to watch Evil Dead who has no idea.
Fede Alvarez
#78. A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.
Julia Alvarez
#79. If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.
Fede Alvarez
#80. There's always a tone that you have to hit right in horror. With the blood, you want to make sure that it makes sense all along.
Fede Alvarez
#81. I think it is important to know how to teach new material to help young people grow and learn.
Julia Alvarez
#82. Someone who believes everything he is told simply can't be a scientist, but someone who believes nothing will wind up in jail or prematurely buried.
Luis Alvarez
#83. Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady descent through layer after layer of depression, like an elevator stopping for a moment on the way down to the basement.
Al Alvarez
#84. No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.
Al Alvarez
#85. One indicator of Ernest Lawrence's influence is the fact that I am the eighth member of his laboratory staff to receive the highest award that can come to a scientist - the Nobel Prize.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#87. Janet Landis came to work in my group in the summer of 1957 when our first bubble-chamber was churning out its earliest pictures.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#88. When you're auditioning for commercials, they're looking for a Latin guy in his 20s, and you'll show up, and it's a bunch of people who look just like you, and it's a little weird. More often than not, they're way better-looking. They're taller. They have way more abs than you do.
Frankie J. Alvarez
#89. The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
Al Alvarez
#90. There's no doubt having an autistic child represents tremendous challenges for both the children and their parents, but in my experience, it has brought me closer to my family and has given me an appreciation for how the human brain develops and the uniqueness of each child it afflicts.
Manny Alvarez
#91. A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.
Julia Alvarez
#92. Suicide is a confession of failure. And like divorce, it is shrouded in excuses and rationalizations spun endlessly to disguise the simple fact that all one's energy, passion, appetite and ambition have been aborted.
Al Alvarez
#94. I was the only woman fooling around with a camera in the streets and all the reporters laughed at me. So I became a fighter.
Lola Alvarez Bravo
#95. Kezia looked down her nose at him - the haughty school-teacher stare less devastating when the school-teacher in question wore penguins.
Tracey Alvarez
#96. I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would run into a problem and have no one to talk to.
Julia Alvarez
#97. Her stomach looped into a series of reef knots, each growing tighter the closer her steps carried her into the center of town.
Tracey Alvarez
#98. If I came out a photographer it's because I knew about painting, composition, and the handling of light.
Lola Alvarez Bravo
#99. It's always gratifying to hear from a passionate reader, and as a longtime educator, I'm especially pleased and heartened when that reader is a young student who is inspired to write me and let me know that my book has helped him or her find her way.
Julia Alvarez
#100. One simple kiss? Something must've shorted in her brain, because this kiss tap-danced all over simple.
Tracey Alvarez
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