Alexandra McGuinness Quotes

Lotus Eaters is a movie about people who can't really be alone, but they're always alone, really, even when they're together.

Alexandra McGuinness

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• There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Freedom
  • Place
  • Traditions

• 'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Woman
  • Gossip
  • Falling

• I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Love
  • Like

• I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Bond

• We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.

  

  Ted Danson
  • You
  • Start
  • Looking

• A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • People
  • Going
  • Polls

• When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Lost
  • First
  • Vegas

• I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • Nature
  • See
  • Back

• I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Try

• My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I remember her playing 'Double Fantasy' quite often.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Remember
  • Parents
  • Mom

• I run about four to five miles, three days a week. I have four young children, so pretty much the only time I can get away is real early in the morning.

  

  Kai Ryssdal
  • Time
  • Real
  • Children

• I feel like I'm quite versatile. I want to do lots of different styles.

  

  Fleur East
  • Different
  • Want
  • Like

• The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Trying
  • Free
  • Man

• At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Good
  • Day
  • End

• Sorry. My testing organization is either too small, or too large, depending on how you look at it.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Small
  • Organization
  • Sorry

• Larry poured himself a coffee. 'I hate when they come in here with computers. They sit forever at their tables, and they don't talk to nobody, it's like having a place full of statues or zombies.'

  

  Cory Doctorow
  • Hate
  • Forever
  • Coffee

• The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Long
  • May

• I guess I'll retire someday if I live that long.

  

  Bobby Bowden
  • Long
  • Live

• The only way to get a three to four-month break would be to tear a tendon or a hamstring or something like that.

  

  Kevin Pietersen

• No man has ever paid a single bill in my life - I didn't want it.

  

  China Machado
  • Life
  • Single

• Well, they know that I'm not very anxious to get into one hour again.

  

  Charisma Carpenter

• I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's why people are doing too many revivals, that's why there's a plethora of rock musicals. There's room for everything, but not room for too much of anything.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Why
  • Rock

• One of the big things right now is the DJ is a spectacle, isn't it? You have the enormous light show, smoke, explosions, and fire. There's a dude with a USB stick playing somewhere in there, but the spectacle is created out of lights and lasers and whatever. The original idea of DJing - being a shadowy figure in the corner while people were having a party - is not the one that makes money and is massively popular internationally.

  

  Joe Goddard The 2 Bears
  • Fire
  • Show
  • Smoke

• Lotus Eaters is a movie about people who can't really be alone, but they're always alone, really, even when they're together.

  

  Alexandra McGuinness
  • People
  • Movie
  • Alone