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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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
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I don't know how you can justify leaving any engagement behind in the social Web of 2011.
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Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time.
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My idea of magic doesn't have much to do with stage tricks and illusions. The whole world abounds in magic.
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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.
