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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'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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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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If I could work with any actor it would have to be Johnny Depp. He is cool.
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Almost one in three Americans has had some contact with the criminal justice system. When you reach that saturation point, people begin to understand, in a very visceral way, the difficulties of reentry.
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You never compromise with violence. You never compromise with intimidation. You never compromise by those who want to use those to extinguish freedom and democracy, because if you do then the very things for which you stand are extinguished.
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I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me.
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People's guards were taken down because there was a new wrinkle. Never, ever give out your PIN number.
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Much of the geographical work of the past hundred years... has either explicitly or implicitly taken its inspiration from biology, and in particular Darwin. Many of the original Darwinians, such as Hooker, Wallace, Huxley, Bates, and Darwin himself, were actively concerned with geographical exploration, and it was largely facts of geographical distribution in a spatial setting which provided Darwin with the germ of his theory.
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Observation capitalizes inspiration.
