Alexandra Robbins Quotes

No student should be encouraged - by anyone - to change himself until he's "normal," a term that says everything and means nothing.

Alexandra Robbins

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• The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Reality
  • Down
  • Normal

• I'm a student of the movies. I'm a student of all media. This is what I do, and I like to immerse myself in what's current and what's topical. And I find that I'm drawn to those things.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Myself
  • Media
  • Student

• I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old Testament tradition you find flames, the burning bush.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Experience
  • History
  • Student

• 'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Me
  • First
  • Deal

• I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • People
  • Think
  • Pretty

• Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Religious
  • Minds
  • Normal

• The fellows that I played with encouraged me to bunt and beat the ball out. I was anxious to make good and did as I was told. When I came to Brooklyn, I adopted an altogether different style of hitting. I stood flat-footed at the plate and slugged. That was my natural style.

  

  Zack Wheat
  • Style
  • Natural
  • Played

• My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for that, I wanted to be like other normal families on TV.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go 'Woo-hoo!'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Weird

• I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Always
  • Famous
  • Normal

• People follow me because I am just a normal person, and they can relate to me.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Normal
  • Follow

• Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Law
  • Judge
  • Student

• In 2007, a very inspired New York University Ph.D. student counted all the models on the runway, every single one that was hired, and of the 677 models that were hired, only 27, or less than four per cent, were non-white.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Single
  • Inspired
  • New York

• I like that I don't have to conform to the normal women-in-music-selling-sex-appeal thing.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Women
  • Like

• My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.'

  

  Asif Kapadia
  • Art
  • Wife
  • Film

• I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted patient people who would work on something forever. I didn't want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Fate" Eve said with a sigh "I'm not sure fate had to burn up your car to get the point across," Shane said, buckling his own seatbelt. "No, not that. The hearse. I'm going to name it Fate." Shane stared at Eve for a long, long few seconds, then slowly shook his head. "Have you considered medication, or-" She flipped him off. "Ah. Back to normal. Excellent.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Long
  • She

• When I'm up there, and I know the show's coming to a close, in my head I'm saying to myself, Oh man, you gotta get off and be a normal person again. That's what I don't like so much.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Up
  • Men
  • Knows

• People like passion in politics.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • People
  • Passion
  • Politics

• V.L.A.D.: Vampire League Against Discrimination.

  

  Carrie Vaughn
  • League
  • Vampire
  • Discrimination

• If we are to include the outer and the inner struggle in a conception more definite than that of conflict in general, we must employ some such phrase as 'spiritual force.' This will mean whatever forces act in the human spirit, whether good or evil, whether personal passion or impersonal principle; doubts, desires, scruples, ideas-whatever can animate, shake, possess, and drive a man's soul. In a Shakespearean tragedy some such forces are shown in conflict.

  

  Andrew Cecil Bradley
  • Soul
  • Passion
  • Tragedy

• No student should be encouraged - by anyone - to change himself until he's "normal," a term that says everything and means nothing.

  

  Alexandra Robbins
  • Normal
  • Student
  • Encouraged