Alexander C. Irvine Quotes
Overcommunicate. It's better to tell someone something they already know than to not tell them something they needed to hear.
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At Al Jazeera, we are getting our local Somalis, Yemenis and Sudanese, local correspondents from within the society, who understand much better than the people who come from overseas. We will get a much better insight.
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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
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Some films shouldn't be remade.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.
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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
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And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
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Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.
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When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
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I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
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It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.
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Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
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Overcommunicate. It's better to tell someone something they already know than to not tell them something they needed to hear.
