Alexey Leonov 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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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
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Relying on someone else to be successful only ties you down and limits you.
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I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.
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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
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I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
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Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it.
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As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.
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One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.
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I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.
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It's no secret that I'm called to a different place, maybe, for some of the beliefs in the LGBTQ community because of my faith. With that said, I'm also called to be accepting and compassionate.
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One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.
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I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.
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I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.
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That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!
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There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.
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I have never quite understood the relationship between beauty and weakness, womanly sweetness and womanly silliness; to my mind, indeed, that woman being the most beautiful who is the most capable, while weakness and silliness can never by any chance be other than unlovely.
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You're the cutest thing that I ever did see. I really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree...
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You never know in a movie if it's going to be a sequel, but right now I'm proud of what we produced.
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I could see Armstrong bouncing on the moon.
