Alice Randall Quotes
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The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.
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A lot of people don't get second chances.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.
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You can learn more from a person just from their observations and how they see the world. More so than just talking.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.
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I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.
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I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.
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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
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I'd love to do a film with Michael Fassbender. He's one of my heroes. I think he's absolutely amazing and I would love to do a project with him.
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My books may highlight corruption, brutality and venality, but they also show that if these things come to light, there is rectification. The voiceless do have a voice; democratic mechanisms and accountability do exist.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.
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Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
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The Commission's findings underscore that the nation is still vulnerable to attack and that we must move more quickly to make us safer. We must take the Commission's work and use it to make certain that such horrific attacks never occur again.
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True love is a preview of heaven, and you do what you got to, to get it.
