Alex Mack (Javon Alexander) Quotes
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I believed I was invincible.
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As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.
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The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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Meditation helps me to calm down.
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I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.
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With 'Palo Alto' as the catalyst, I've surrounded myself with people that have kind of created a world where I can feel like I'm not gonna be judged for doing something that I want to do.
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Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.
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Performing live on stage is such a community, whether it's my musicians or a cast of a show that I'm in. And then when you're in the studio or on set, it's a much more solitary experience. Both can serve me at different times in my life. And when I go back and forth from one to the other, it helps me appreciate all of them much better.
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I grew up pretty much with nothing.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.
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I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.
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I'm lucky to attribute my success to the foundation my family gave me. I've always felt grounded in them.
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When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.
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It was a very hard life. As I got older, the family was depending very much on me. My two older brothers got married, so they had their own families depending on them. I had seven people relying on me, so I worked in a grocery store.
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I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled.
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Fifty thousand dollars' worth of cabinets isn't going to make you a better cook; cooking is going to make you a better cook. At the end of the day, you can slice a mushroom in about three inches of space, and you can carve a chicken in a foot and a half. So it doesn't matter how big the kitchen is.
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Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog. (p. 48)
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I'm fourteen years old; that's almost half-way to thirty. I need my own space.
