Shana Alexander Quotes
This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.
Quotes to Explore
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Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
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Reducing debt through budgetary consolidation is essential to restoring Europe's financial health.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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Practice puts brains in your muscles.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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You just can't bifurcate bitcoin currency from the technology. Bitcoin will always need a monetary base.
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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In a small space, you want to keep the bedding as simple as possible so it looks clean, calm and collected.
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But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world.
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Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they are doing other things, and it is just nice to see how other writers are writing.
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People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of locals go to McDonald's, Applebee's and the like.
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I definitely had a very religious upbringing. My father was just instilling good morals into us at a very young age, and it wasn't super-strict, but it was a loving, warm household.
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People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.
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Everyone puts all of the advances that we've made on Dr. King, but there's a lot of people who were part of the civil rights movement.
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Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.
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A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.
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Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.
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This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.
