Alex Meneses Quotes
When I deal with folks I know casually, that are either famous or were famous. To be a big star, you have to be a little delusional. Nothing else matters than being that star. It's a bit weird.
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I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
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Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.
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Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.
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Betty Shabazz was the wife of a man who challenged a government that was historically unjust. She was harassed and placed under surveillance by the Nation of Islam (NOI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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To the solace of his name, simply saying 'Muhammad' has an incredibly soothing effect on me.
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There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.
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If you listen to Giuliani, it's like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I'm not part of the history. Bloomberg's not part of the history. It's like, he did it. He's the only one. That's why he's a little crazy.
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Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.
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By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
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When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
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Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.
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I find theatre easier than films, because it gives you an environment of a dark hall, the audience concentrating with you... whereas, film sets are not conducive to long rehearsals, and it is difficult to pick up the emotions amidst all that is going on around you.
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Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.
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Jack Reacher is one of the sexiest characters in fiction.
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My number one style requirement is to have fun getting dressed. Nothing is too old, expensive, cheap, cute or ugly for me.
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There was this darkness about being from New Jersey.
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An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.
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I have forgotten much, but still rememberThe poinsiana's red, blood-red in warm December.
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There's nothing like having somebody that loves every single bit of you, and that you love the same way, to actually, really share it with.
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I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.
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I'm way too famous and rich to be on a dating app, but if I get very desperate by the time I'm 60, I'll go on Tinder. Or I'll go on 'Millionaire Matchmaker'; I'll call Patti Stanger.
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I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.
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It may have lost its special-ness forever and the clubs might not being doing well but I think standup is in the best shape it has been in a long time.
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When I deal with folks I know casually, that are either famous or were famous. To be a big star, you have to be a little delusional. Nothing else matters than being that star. It's a bit weird.
