Shana Alexander Quotes
The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.
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I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I don't think I can name any names or anything, but this is what I've wanted to do for a long time: to have Flume as my creative outlet and to work on the biggest songs in the world, like pop, and come up with the idea and send it off.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.
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In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.
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I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
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Does Hollywood do movies about terrorism? Yeah. And why do they do that? Because it sells.
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Consumerist ads brainwash us into individualist and egotistic self-love.
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Appreciate your heart; really know how to take care of your heart.
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For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.
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There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
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The one broken window that permanently wouldn't roll up had destroyed her perfectly curled blond prom-hair, and by the time we got to the gym she looked like Marie Antoinette with bedhead.
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I don't want to find myself ever locked into what people think I should think or do. In my art, and acting, I have a universal vision of things, an international vision. Bigger and broader and beyond. 'Bigger than life' is always on my mind.
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When it comes to staying myself - my career isn't my life, it doesn't come home with me. So it's a piece of piss staying grounded and not being changed by it. The same things I've always liked still satisfy me. My team's the same and my group of friends are the same. Of course I'm bowled over by people's response to 21, and when I meet artists I love, it blows my mind. But it baffles me as well. I go home and my best friend laughs at me, rather than going to a celebrity-studded party to rub shoulders with people who know me but who I don't know. I'm Z-list when it comes to that sh**.
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He particularly liked about making students safe for ideas, not ideas safe for students.
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The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.
