Alana Beard Quotes
My intensity level and my mindset was at a different level tonight, ... That's where I've been trying to get to the entire season and I finally made it.

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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that's hard for me to digest. I think a live audience is the only tangible evidence you can have that your work is making an impact. It's really humbling.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
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There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
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The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting.
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Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers.
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I'm on 'Dancing with the Stars' because I want to prove my sister wrong. My sister literally told the world that I could not dance, so I have to redeem myself.
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The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
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If there's one thing that 2009 showed us, it's that everything is happening everywhere, across multiple platforms, each one making waves that end up crashing against each other and commingling into one giant media sea.
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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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I like 'Glee' a lot. It's kind of like my guilty pleasure.
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Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
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I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.
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Artists often become vocal advocates of freedom of expression because we depend on it so heavily in our work. But it is an inalienable right that belongs to everyone on an equal basis.
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Free men are the strongest men.
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The first step toward maintaining autonomy in any programmed environment is to be aware that there's programming going on. It's as simple as understanding the commercials are there to help sell things. And that TV shows are there to sell commercials, and so on.
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I didn't grow up thinking to myself, 'Someday, if I play all my cards right, I can end up in a public institution with a lower approval rating than attorneys.'
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Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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My intensity level and my mindset was at a different level tonight, ... That's where I've been trying to get to the entire season and I finally made it.