Alex Lemon Quotes
I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted.
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Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.
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I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights.
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Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.
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You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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I think sometimes when I go to make a move on something, people try to disqualify any talent that I have or any hard work that I've done.
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There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out of town for a couple of months and play with toys.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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My family moved to Israel when I was eight until I was 10, and then we came back, and my parents split up. I was suddenly in a single-parent home and on scholarship. Fifth grade was such a hard year for me.
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Some guys just slip under the radar.
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In Wisconsin, style-wise, it was all about bundling up, maybe wearing a hat and forgetting about your hair.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.
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I go for drives in the Flint Hills, which is the setting for 'The Virgin of Small Plains'.
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I think that when I die, it might be some time until I know it.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things that you've felt. It's kind of impossible not to unless you're writing a song and there's an exact scenario that you're trying to write a song for.
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I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted.
