Alexandra Potter Quotes
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Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.
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I want variety. I certainly don't want any kind of hype if I can avoid it. I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety, I suppose, because - like a lot of people - I'm easily bored.
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
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We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.
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The more questions and answers we get, the more useful Quora is.
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The sad thing is that apparently if you want to become the next Premier or the leader, suddenly you've got to shut down your human side.
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If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.
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I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.
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In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.
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I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
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A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.
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I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
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Camp Southern Ground is a lot more than a camp. It's more of a campus.
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People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
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Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.
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I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you.
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I asked what you love, you said, 'Anything with words.'
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I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
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Why is it that when you discover you can't have something, you want it even more?
