Alice Winocour Quotes
Since PTSD is being exposed to death and the death of someone close, I felt really close to [the soldiers].
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.
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I don't mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year round, but I haven't really thought about it since then. I don't go to a tanning bed, and I get bored when I lay out. I put sunscreen on when I'm in the sun, and sometimes I get tan, but I don't really think about it very much.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.
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I am so inspired by new media.
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I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I only have about 15 recipes in my repertoire that I rotate - but I love being able to go down to the river and catch a 30 lb. salmon, then grill it on the barbecue.
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Investing in people is the single most important thing in the knowledge economy. Traditionally, wealth was defined by land and natural resources. Today the most important resources is between our ears.
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It's an advantage having a limited output. When George Gershwin is asked to play his repertoire, he plays all evening. I just play 'Lady Play Your Mandolin' and I'm through.
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I've always been careful to put out the very best work I can. One of the things I value the most is the love and faith that people have given me over the years, so I try to live up to their expectations and my own standards of what I'm capable of.
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It was growing dusk, the blue hour when solid things take on a certain transparency and phantoms become palpable.
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My mind thinks in wrestling. As I'm thinking of things and my mind is being creative, it constantly keeps going back to wrestling. That's my inspiration, and to not be able to express that puts me in a spot where I almost don't know what to do with myself.
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You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.
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I am convinced that when we bring our griefs and sorrows within the story of God's own grief and sorrow, and allow them to be held there, God is able to bring healing to us and new possibilities to our lives. That is, of course, what Good Friday and Easter are all about.
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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
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Since PTSD is being exposed to death and the death of someone close, I felt really close to [the soldiers].
