Jane Alexander Quotes
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I have to be seen to be believed.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face.
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You never get every job you want.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.
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Someone will write a resolution that says, 'I want to exercise more,' or 'I want to lose 15 pounds' - which is great, that's a great goal to have - but every study tells us that if you pose things in abstract, goal-related terms, it's much less likely that you will accomplish it than if you structure it as an actual activity.
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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
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There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.
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A lot of my friends were retiring from the newspaper business, and the newspaper pensions are not enormous.
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What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.
