Alexandra Potter Quotes
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.
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With a 3D printer, you could build your own car, one part at a time. When you were finished, you'd have an automobile that is extremely lightweight because it is made of plastic, which is good because you'd need to carry it because it is made of plastic.
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Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.
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In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'
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I try to stay as naive as possible so I'm not as aware as much of the risks.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.
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I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.
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I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.
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I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. The thing is if you have 10 views that land you on the left side of the aisle and two views that land you on the right side of the aisle, then people just put you on the right side of the aisle. I'm not sure why.
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I'm impossible to forget, but I'm hard to remember.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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Nike doesn't want to make products for everyone - they want to make products for champions.
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By now, you've probably caught on to something: my mother is always standing by with just the right Scripture or inspirational saying to get me through any tough situation.
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It's not getting what you want that's the hard part, it's deciding what you want.
