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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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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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.
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You never know where your actions will lead to. But if you don't do anything they will lead you nowhere.
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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.
