Alice Randall Quotes
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There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
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I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
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In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.
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For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
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My mom got me into some commercials, and I basically, I guess, just got out of my shell I was in at the time because I can't remember. I've just been blessed ever since.
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Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.
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Our primary objective must be to prevent wars, and when we fail in this, we must protect and assist the innocent victims.
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I never co-write. I've tried it before, and I just can't do it.
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The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.
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She had impressed him as capable of behaviour even more meaningless than most human beings. He had watched her kill her own people with a ferocity that betrayed real grief. But she was someone, he had decided early, who struggled harder with life than she needed to: this he respected, even admired.
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I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
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None but a woman can teach the science of herself.
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I am not the first woman to multi-task. I am not the first woman to work and have a baby - there are many women who have done this before.
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The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It's personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will. It has a unique scent. It requires deciphering. But, most important, it's flawed.
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From this amphibious ill-born mob beganThat vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman.
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God doesn't give a man anything more precious than a good woman.
