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 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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But I think there comes a time where you say, 'Is this what we want, or is this what everybody else wants?'
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The good thing about execution issues are that they are within our control.
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The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.
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We do not yet know each other because we have not yet dared to be silent together.
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You become a star not because of your title; you become a star because you are adding star value to the company
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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."
