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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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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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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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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In my standup work, I always do these characters, older people who are just off to the side. It's easier to write a story about the guy who made it to the top, but the middle is so much more interesting, so much more murky.
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For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core.
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I made more decisions in a half-day as governor than you can make in a whole week in the Senate... it's too slow for me.
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As much as the banking system may not be terribly popular, it is an essential part of the economy.
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I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, 'I'm a boy, but I wear make-up sometimes.' But, you know, to me, it doesn't really matter.
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When you are realized, you can start feeling your own chakras and the chakras of other people. This is enlightenment.
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The thing is, if you're a designer, then you want to constantly push yourself and your designs.
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Practice the brotherhood, love, and cooperation insistently enjoined by hundreds of Qur'anic verses and traditions of the Prophet!
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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.
