Alice Kuipers Quotes
Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened. And if you can't do that, force a smile on your face and sob into your pillow later.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
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Even people who believe they deserve to be happy and have nice things often don't feel worthy once they have them.
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The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
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I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
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Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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The producers and writers of dance music are becoming the stars, not so much the DJs.
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My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met.
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I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
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I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.
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With 'Eagle of the Ninth,' every shot was extremely planned and organized. The director was like, 'Do this!' And I say, 'How was it?' and he says, 'Good.' It was very odd. I would never know where he was headed, or even if he was shooting me at a close-up or from a distance.
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Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
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I hate musicals. There, I said it.
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I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.
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Only that position can impart dignity in which we do not appear as servile tools but rather create independently within our circle.
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...we like somebody who succeeds with such bad conscience, and who seems to wish that he had the nerve to be a failure or, better still, something to which the terms success and failure don’t apply-as when Mallory said, about Everest: 'Success is meaningless here.'
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Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.
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Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
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I don't go to these places where there are belly dancers and this and that.
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I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language.
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Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.
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I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I've always been like that; I don't smile in any pictures.
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Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened. And if you can't do that, force a smile on your face and sob into your pillow later.
