Alexandra Potter Quotes
But I figure you're never too old to learn. That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore.
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.
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My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
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I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.
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One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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I am inspired by thinkers. I am inspired by rebellion. I am inspired by children. I have been inspired by love. I have been inspired by heartbreak. I try to take everything that comes at me in life. There have been times in my life that I didn't handle things... right. But even though you stumble, you still kind of get through it.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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You can't make a direct comparison between middle-class African Americans and middle-class white Americans, affluent African Americans and affluent white Americans. The amount of wealth tends to be less.
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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
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We learn of great things by little experiences.
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But I figure you're never too old to learn. That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore.
