Alex James Quotes
There is a thrill of vulnerability at all airshows. There is no way of making everything completely safe. When the machines are being thrashed to capacity and the pilots are flying at their limits to dazzle, things are bound to go wrong sometimes. There have been some historic disasters, but the danger is a part of the attraction.
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The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.
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Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
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I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.
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One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.
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Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.
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Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.
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The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.
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My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was okay until I got kicked out, which happened twice.
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I did some good things as a rookie.
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To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.
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If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
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Growing up eating fruits and vegetables fresh from our farm added a lot to the way I taste and look at food today, and I wanted the same for my kids and other kids.
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The collapse of the Soviet Union could not have been a source of national pride for many in Russia. The one person who has capitalized on this the most has been Vladimir Putin.
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The way I see it, commercial interests should manage a lunar base while NASA gets on with the really important task of flying to Mars.
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Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.
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Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.
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There is a thrill of vulnerability at all airshows. There is no way of making everything completely safe. When the machines are being thrashed to capacity and the pilots are flying at their limits to dazzle, things are bound to go wrong sometimes. There have been some historic disasters, but the danger is a part of the attraction.
