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 used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
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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 can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.
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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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I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.
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Whether you need to like a character, I don't think that's necessary in order to portray him.
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I take my mobile phone and iPad wherever I go. I like to switch off when I'm on holiday, but I always check emails in case someone at home is trying to get hold of me.
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It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess if he hopes to attain perfection? That inwardness which the spectator must share if he is to understand the work as the artist wishes and hopes... Believe me, talents are like virtues; either you must love them for their own sake or renounce them altogether. And they are only recognized and rewarded when we have practised them in secret, like a dangerous mystery."
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At my first Golden Globes, I met people I was very much enamored by: Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. It was surreal to see them in person.
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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."
