Alex Gansa Quotes

They’re writing what we’re all living, you ’d have to be blind, deaf and dumb not to see the drama in the humanitarian crisis in the Middle East.

Alex Gansa

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• You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • You
  • Play
  • Win

• The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Age
  • Reason
  • Poetry

• Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Always
  • Everything
  • Barber

• Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Power
  • Stealing
  • Few

• Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Great
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Important
  • Day
  • End

• You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Fear
  • You
  • Scared

• Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • You
  • Something
  • Naughty

• I have always liked a challenge.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Always
  • Challenge
  • Liked

• I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Age
  • Game
  • Goal

• Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a process.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Good
  • Process
  • Through

• I recommend people develop a fear of elevators, like I have. Even if something is on the tenth floor, I'm walking up. If you don't have claustrophobia, pretend you do and take the stairs everywhere! It ends up being so healthy!

  

  Tamara Taylor
  • People
  • Up
  • Fear

• Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Nature
  • Fact
  • Miracles

• I wish I got invited to more luaus. I really do!

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Wish
  • More
  • I Wish

• The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Think
  • Nice
  • Very

• Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • Political
  • Law
  • Abuse

• It is hard for anyone who discovers George Washington not to write about him, perhaps because he is so hard to discover and such a surprise when you do.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • You
  • Surprise
  • Washington

• While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Practice

• Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life, The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!

  

  Lord Byron
  • Life
  • Clouds
  • Rainbow

• A good song is a good song, and if I'm lucky enough to write it, well....! I get more kick out of writing than I do singing. I reckon I've written a thousand songs and had over 300 published.

  

  Hank Williams
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Song

• We all pretend for a while or for a lifetime. But pretending is not living...I believe that God meant for life to take our breath away, sometimes because of the sheer joy of it all and sometimes because of the severe pain. To choose living over pretending means that we will know both.

  

  Angela Thomas
  • Life
  • Living
  • Pretending

• Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Writing
  • Guy
  • Song

• They’re writing what we’re all living, you ’d have to be blind, deaf and dumb not to see the drama in the humanitarian crisis in the Middle East.

  

  Alex Gansa
  • Writing
  • Living
  • Blind