Shana Alexander Quotes
The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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I drove right into the music with the same sort of attitude as I went into the football stuff with. Just found a routine and hard work, and it helped me progress a lot faster.
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Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They tend to be more in the moment, more willing to play, to be joyful.
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It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling.
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How can a country like Korea, which was not fully prepared for the upcoming era, be as rich as Germany now?
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One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew that I had to stay active, that I had to keep living as if my life was actually going to unfold naturally because when you stop, when you freeze, and you think about it, that's when the demons come and can drag you down.
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One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
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Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
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Doing Broadway was always a dream of mine since I was a little girl.
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The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
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I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy.
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I'm just a human being. I'm from the projects, too.
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Companies the size of PepsiCo is like running a little republic, there is no question about it. The only difference is that I don't have to worry about the media hounding me every day, on every word that I say. I have a board of directors that runs the country in the interest of the stake holders.
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You don't know where you belong... You need something to swear to, As you fol-low blindly along; You just need to belong somehow.
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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property.
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Laughing is a medicine. It releases this amazing stuff.
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It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted.
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I don't know why we choose to reach out to help another person, or why we decide that we can't, and withdraw and try to care only for ourselves, but I'm fascinated by that choice.
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The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.
