Alexandra Pelosi Quotes
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
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I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.
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'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.
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I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.
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My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.
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Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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I was a goody two shoes - a straight-A girl, and I took pride in my studies.
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There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - everything is against you.
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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
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I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even artists, want personal recognition. We want to be recognized for something, for what we did. I'd rather my song be recognized for what it's doing and that's important. It's not so important how many people know me.
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Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
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I always knew I'd be more of a character actor than a leading man, and I always wanted to take that and run with it.
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I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.
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I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.
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I do think that there are certain parts, if you are lucky enough to play them, that are bigger than you, and they stretch you. I don't think you become a bigger person, but you develop certain muscles you didn't have before.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.
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I can't control what goes on; that's not my responsibility. My responsibility is to go play football. ... I take it as a low blow. I had to work. It wasn't handed to me, I had to get out and grind. It's a golden opportunity [to prove people wrong].
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If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You can't do that with television - you have air dates to meet.
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A lot of making TV is lightening in a bottle.
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To the audience at her farewell concert. You have always given me more than I gave to you ... You were the wings on which I soared.
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I never say I make documentaries. I say I make television.
