Jane Alexander Quotes
I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't end when you come off the court.
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It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
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Ironically, I find it harder to get a foothold in Australia than I do in the U.S. When I was in Australia, I struggled. It can be a bit of a closed shop; it can be hard for a newcomer to break in, whereas in the U.S., it has much more of an open-door policy, and they will give anyone a shot.
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I travel regularly and have learnt to be very methodical as far as packing is concerned. For example, I always check the weather in advance of where I'm going to ensure that I've packed the right clothes.
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Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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American music culture is black culture.
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You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.
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That's hot.
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Theater owners are exerting a lot of power over the studios to withhold access to content that people want to see. That's bad for consumers, that's bad for studios, and ultimately, I think it will be bad for theaters.
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I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.
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Family is always first. Even though my kids are older - my son is 25 and my daughter is 21 - I still like to sit down and have dinner with them as much as I can.
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The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe.
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More money means litigating, more player-hating. Got a cell at the pen, for me waiting. Is this my fate?
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Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls.
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Nulla enim alia re uidemus populum Romanum orbem subegisse terrarum nisi armorum exercitio, disciplina castrorum usuque militiae.
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I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair.
