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 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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'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.
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But I didn't think about this beforehand. I just went ahead and did it, and that's the way it turned out. So I guess there are lots of paradoxes which I'll leave for other people to unscramble.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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I don't think you can mix classical music and reggae. It's not possible. But some producer in, like, Norway is going to put it together.
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Every time we can't drill a well in America, terrorism is being funded. Every onerous regulation puts American lives at risk.
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Natural Selection is stern, but she has her tolerant moods.
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When a child sees herself through the prism of her peer group, the resulting self image can be distorted.
