Shana Alexander Quotes

Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices

Shana Alexander

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• You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Sports
  • Win
  • Lose

• I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Gift
  • Conscious
  • Curse

• Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.

  

  Filippo Brunelleschi
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Listening

• Parts that are desexed, matronly – to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you know, dead character, is not gonna fly with me.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Character
  • Know
  • Fly

• It's really important, especially for young girls, to see that if you fall down, you get back up. If you get sick, you get back up. People are going to say what they want.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Day
  • Meditation
  • Twice

• If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Courage

• There's a tiredness of abstract intelligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • World
  • Soul
  • Knowledge

• But people like to say, Oh, it's in the blood. But art comes from nowhere. It comes from a vague, scary place. It's scary because you don't know when it's coming or if it will ever come again. It's this Other.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Art
  • Scary

• I pushed myself way too hard during the first year of Veronica Mars and I got moody and run-down. Now I'll go to bed early instead of going out with friends. It's not always the most fun option, but I know I need at least eight hours of sleep to feel balanced.

  

  Kristen Bell
  • Friends
  • Fun
  • Sleep

• I can't write songs unless I am in love.

  

  Kevin Ayers

• I didn't want to be a rock and roller. I wanted to be a Bobby Darin because he was the epitome of the performer, the sophisticated.

  

  Neil Sedaka
  • Rock

• Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

  

  Dominic Cooper
  • Character

• I am stubborn enough to know not to change myself.

  

  Alessia Cara

• Even when she was alive, Esther Kreitman's novels, short stories and translations received far less attention than the work of her famous brothers, I. J. and Isaac Bashevis Singer.

  

  Clive Sinclair
  • Work
  • She
  • Attention

• Red hair stigmatizes you.

  

  David Caruso
  • Hair
  • Red

• When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.'

  

  Mary Lou Williams
  • Player

• Back in the 1500s, the culture that we had built in the West embraced multigenerational projects quite easily. Notre Dame. Massive cathedrals were not built over the course of a few years, they were built over a few generations. People who started building them knew they wouldn't be finished until their grandson was born.

  

  Jamais Cascio
  • People
  • Culture
  • Grandson

• I was a guitar player first off.

  

  Boz Scaggs The Steve Miller Band
  • Player

• I tell stories, and I do it through writing, through acting, through my stand-up, and through directing. All the hats I wear - producing as well - ultimately, I am a storyteller.

  

  Del Shores
  • Up
  • Writing

• Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfunctional delusion.

  

  Petra Kelly
  • Nature
  • Mentality
  • Delusion

• I definitely get nervous about if I'm going to forget the words to the songs or something. And I don't enjoy being the center of attention for an hour straight - I think that's really stressful.

  

  Bridgit Mendler
  • Words
  • Attention

• Diverse forms of memory can have a variety of gaps. Thus it is possible for me to represent a past situation to myself and be unable to remember my inner behavior in this situation. As I transfer myself back into this situation, a surrogate for the missing memory comes into focus.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Remember
  • Past
  • Focus

• Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices

  

  Shana Alexander
  • Focus
  • Mysterious
  • Prove