Alexandra Robbins Quotes
Being an outsider doesn't necessarily indicate any sort of social failing. We do not view a tuba player as musically challenged if he cannot play the violin.
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I'm just trying to have fun, and maybe the way I hold myself kind of freaks people out. I don't feel like an outsider, and I think my friends feel the same way I do. Now that we're playing to larger audiences, maybe we're weird to some people. But I'm trying to express what I am.
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One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
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War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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I'm thrilled I got to work with James Ponsoldt, who is going to make his mark on this industry.
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I'm always a little apprehensive about 'decoding' fictional stories.
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One of the things performers worry about is who you follow. But if I can't top what I heard in the last hour. ... There wasn't one iota of humor! You guys are so serious.
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Raven-haired writer Emer Martin is giving a lunchtime reading from her fabulous new novel, Baby Zero. Emer Martin is a brilliant writer, very much the real deal. She tells me that every single Irish review of her new book has made passing reference to Cecelia Ahern. Weird, given that Emer is to chick-lit what Shane MacGowan is to sobriety.
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I told my doctor I got water on my knee, he gave me a sponge and raised his fee!
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Faith makes the uplook good, the outlook bright, the inlook favorable, and the future glorious.
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Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.
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Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.
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I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
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We feel we have to put concrete on every inch of land. It disturbs the ecology, and it takes away the experience of a child going out into the woods and seeing all of nature.
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Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.
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I never felt like I was in the grime scene…I was the outsider. So when I veered away from it, I didn’t feel like I was leaving the circle – I felt like I was never in it…No one paid me any attention…I had to do everything on my own.
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Being an outsider doesn't necessarily indicate any sort of social failing. We do not view a tuba player as musically challenged if he cannot play the violin.
