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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The one thing man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by a World Government, a New World Order.
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The power of people, when they focus on something positive, never fails to amaze me.
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People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.
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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.
