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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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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..the wind of 'art brut' blows on writing as well as on other avenues of artistic creation.
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The more I learned about the history of religion, the more my earlier misgivings appeared justified. The doctrines that I had accepted without question as a child were indeed man-made, constructed over a long period. Science seemed to have disposed of the Creator God, and biblical scholars had proved that Jesus had never claimed to be divine.
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What we are made to do we seldom do well, what we do of our own choice we make a success of for very pride.
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As an individual, and I have to say as a person of color, the thing about being an 'other' in America is I really feel like you're bilingual. I'm from a small town in Wisconsin, but even when I'm in New York and I'm working for MSNBC or CNN, you're used to being the only black person in the room.
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Observation capitalizes inspiration.
