Alexandra Richards Quotes
When you're working a three-hour gig, how do you know when to climax? You just watch the crowd and ride the wave. If they're not feeling a song, you move on.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
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I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
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My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.
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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
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The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the universal experience than it would be if I wrote it from L.A. or New York. It's an everyman story.
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.
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Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history dating to Pharaonic Egypt. The last case was in 1978, and the disease was declared eradicated on May 8, 1980.
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I didn't realise how my life was changing. When I was 17, 18, 20, I didn't realise how big football was and everything around football. How many people live for football and love football. I was a professional, but I was a supporter.
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I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.
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You are you, and nobody else can do what you do. But a little talent can help.
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I wanted to fight guys like Shane Moseley, Miguel Cotto, and Alvarez.
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I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.
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In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months.
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Thoughts are impediments to seeing your deepest nature.
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When you're working a three-hour gig, how do you know when to climax? You just watch the crowd and ride the wave. If they're not feeling a song, you move on.
