Douglas Alexander Quotes
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With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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I'm quite good at not writing.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
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Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.
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I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.
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Everybody must have wished at some time that poetry were written by nice ordinary people instead of poets-and, in a better world, it may be; but in this world writers like Constance Carrier are the well oysters that don’t have the pearls.
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One of things I write about a lot is the role of women. An older friend of mine said that she feels like there's always a tension between wanting to be free and wanting to be cherished. I think that's one of the things that my whole book speaks to, wanting to break out of the confines of the roles that are prescribed for women and yet at the same time, not wanting to be totally free. You want to have intimate relationships. It's that bursting out of confinement.
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What people want is a sense of a better future to come.
