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 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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What really kills me—it really rips me up—is when people think I’m abrasive, inconsiderate or ungrateful because I don’t go outside in a bikini and wave to the paparazzi. Come on!
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All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn't bother me.
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There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.
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An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.
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Life is really a blessing to be able to do what you love everyday, to learn about yourself. For me it's been about becoming a woman, and I've really enjoyed that experience.
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Leadership is about change... The best way to get people to venture into unknown terrain is to make it desirable by taking them there in their imaginations.
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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.
