Jason Alexander Quotes
I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
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For me to go casual is not to go simple. To me, it is to be able to bring back the art of tradition and the soul of French food and my interpretation of that.
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Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom - ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down.
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The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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None of our series are ever static in terms of the dates. We always have a range of flexibility to respond to whatever may or may not happen.
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
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My experience with music, I'm not going to say extremely negative, but it's definitely been a grind; it's been grimy - it hasn't been a pretty process. It's left me crying, you know, on the carpet in my tiny apartment with, like, no money. But it's been worth it, it's my passion, my dream, it's what I love to do.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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I don't plot with huge detail, just big moments and important elements, and then I have a structure but can fly by the seat of my pants when I write.
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We are all secularised anarchists today.
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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
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Everybody has their struggles.
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I remember, as a boy of 17 years of age, this was a fascinating thing for me: how we human beings breathe out carbon dioxide into the air, the leaves of plants pick this carbon dioxide up, and the plant gives off oxygen, which we can breathe in and keep our life going.
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There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down the road, so you don't worry for that character.
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I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.
