F. Matthias Alexander Quotes
People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
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Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.
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I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.
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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
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I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now.
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I do care a lot about what I wear, but in a way that is about comfort and practicality, and I always want to look like me.
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I believe that George Bush won the election through the vote of the people and the way our republic is set up. All we did was follow the law in the Department of State.
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When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.
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People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.
