Alexandra Robbins Quotes
When a child sees herself through the prism of her peer group, the resulting self image can be distorted.
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I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.
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The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.
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I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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I have a Lamborghini Diablo. I have Mercedes 600, a 500, a 300, a 190. I have a Ferrari Testarossa, a Porsche speedster.
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I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.
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I think the paradigm is shifting with regard to women and what we bring to the industry. I feel very blessed.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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The very first time a politician puts you in his target is sometimes a disappointment, because perhaps you thought you were friends and getting along well... But it is not something that you dwelled on. At least, I did not.
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
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If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.
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Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.
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Israel, contrary to most of the West, has a high fertility rate, so there's a lot of young people in Israel. Most families have three kids as opposed to one or two, so a big proportion of the population is under 30.
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A pack of jackasses led by a lion is superior to a pack of lions led by a jackass.
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Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable - if anything, quite happy with what you are doing - then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I've made up to that point.
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The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.
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I believe in adventure and imagination, and I got that from my parents and the things I experienced as a child.
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When a child sees herself through the prism of her peer group, the resulting self image can be distorted.
