Alex Gansa Quotes
One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good idea.
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I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.
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Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It's like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.
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I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
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Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.
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All the things that are in the past are in the past.
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We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I knew that he wrote his own music, and he seemed nice, so I found out he was going to be in a practice room, practicing his trumpet. He'd already said he was too busy to hang out or hear any new people or work on any music, so I stalked him.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.
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If there's one thing I can't stand, it's not being noticed.
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The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but what we receive, and bow in deepest humility to wait upon God for it.
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I think pre-nups are brilliant. I get very well taken care of.
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A cynic sees little to admire in the world, while the world sees even less to admire in him.
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The world needs your story in order to be complete.
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One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good idea.
