Shana Alexander Quotes
Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.
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I don't believe in a chronological way of doing things.
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Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.
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I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that.
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There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me – those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.
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I grew up with my mom; it was just the two of us.
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My all-time favorite skin cream is from Poland. Its called Eva Natura with Polish herbs, including rosemary. It smells wonderful and is soothing and comforting.
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I was writing a book about sustainable energy, and a friend asked me, 'Well, how much energy do you use at home?' And I was embarrassed. I didn't actually know.
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Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.
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Go ahead and have the Kit Kat at the movies. If you don't satisfy an urge sometimes, you often substitute less-satisfying things and end up eating more.
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We can't know or say what other people do. You have to think what you want to do to get the situation where you want it to be.
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Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west.
