Douglas Alexander Quotes
My general approach to opposition is where the government is getting something right, we should say so. And where we disagree with them, we should say so, too.
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Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
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When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.
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Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.
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With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
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The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!
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My next goal is for Shenzhen to become the model of environmentally-friendly and sustainable development.
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Well you can be the son of a Marxist and not necessarily be a Marxist in all your views.
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My biggest fear in life is to be average.
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If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their passions and what they're chasing.
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Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.
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I don't like to consider myself a normal preacher. When you look at religious people, they're the ones who hung Christ from the cross. I look at myself as a man carrying a message of hope.
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I am my biggest critic. Even in films where people said they liked me, I have disliked myself.
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I love stories with love in them. I just prefer those films. Every so often, I come across a film where there's no love story. It doesn't have to be romantic, but there's a lack of love, and I don't get that.
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I think the way to be a writer is to experience things, certainly, and be open to things, but at some point to become dedicated to the craft of writing and to create a stable environment for that writing to occur in.
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I like snappy dialogue and short descriptions and lots of action.
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One of the most important factors, not only in military matters but in life as a whole, is ... the ability to direct one's whole energies towards the fulfillment of a particular task.
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I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.
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Baseball is a game based on adversity. It's a game that's going to test you repeatedly. It's going to find your weaknesses and vulnerabilities and force you to adjust. That adversity, in the big picture, is a really good thing because it shows you where your weaknesses are. It gives you the opportunity to improve.
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My general approach to opposition is where the government is getting something right, we should say so. And where we disagree with them, we should say so, too.
