Adele Logan Alexander Quotes
You have to decide what is extraneous and what is central. There is always more to tell. If you want to have a finished product, at some point you have to say "enough."
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
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I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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I always say the greats just get better.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
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My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.
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They can say I have an opinion about something.
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I don't read any reviews, so I'm oblivious to what they have to say. I'm completely unaware. It's fantastic.
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I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.
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Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.
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You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.
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I say accessorize, accessorize, accessorize. If you don't accessorize, someone else will.
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I don't decide my politics based on the flavour of the month.
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The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.
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Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
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Richard Pryor was my hero. Richard Pryor was keeping it 100.
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Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278 pages that approached perfection. Its tightness of construction and assuredness of style reminded me of 'The Great Gatsby.'
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I don't order laws, I propose them.
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Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional.
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In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents.
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You have to decide what is extraneous and what is central. There is always more to tell. If you want to have a finished product, at some point you have to say "enough."
