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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In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.
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I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
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The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.
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When I was a kid, I was a bit of a space geek. I loved the space program and all things NASA. I would read books about our solar system; I had pictures of the Space Shuttle on my bedroom wall. And yes, I even went to Space Camp.
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Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice - keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
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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."
