Alex Faickney Osborn Quotes
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I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.
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Being a writer - even a best-selling one - is usually not anywhere near as public as being a movie star, at least not when I'm out in 'real life' like this. Not that I don't use what fame I have, every chance I get, to help sell more books.
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Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
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I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.
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We all do stupid things.
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As for myself, I was never against Russia.
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The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.
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I feel about me like I'm one of the working people, just like you, and everybody else. I don't fit the part of a celebrity.
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I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me.
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It took me forever to leave Chicago. I went to Columbia College because I wasn't ready to leave! My professors had to kick me in the pants to move to Los Angeles.
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My main priority in any job is when is the soonest I can get back to the three people I love most in the world.
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I always show up to work and give it everything, and some things turn out better than others - and some things you can expect that it will come out better than others.
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The beating heart of your story... that's not what shows up in a trailer. The other stuff is what shows up in a trailer, because that's what gets people in to the seats, and that's how studios make their money.
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I tended to be the nerdy kid - stood at the back, watching other people having fun - I wasn't always necessarily a big part of the fun myself.
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I don't miss politics.
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Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited.
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I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a doctor. The doctors I knew as a very young child must have helped to plant the desire in me, when I was as young as five or six. One homeopathic physician, Dr. Justice Gage Wright, was a great model.
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Observing life, living through it. As you experience life some events call upon you to suffer through them and that's what brings inspiration.
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We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came from.
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Observation capitalizes inspiration.
