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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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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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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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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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 live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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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 was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job is because I couldn't have my family there - the family had to stay in town. I just wasn't willing to do that.
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I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.
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At 14 and 15, I used to listen to Tito Puente, Dave Valentine and everything that was happening with American jazz. I love it.
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Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
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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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Reardan is the rich white farm town that sits in the wheat fields exactly 22 miles away from the Rez. And it's a hick town I suppose filled with farmers and rednecks and racists cops who stop every Indian that drives through. During one week when I was little dad got stopped three times for DWI- Driving While Indian.
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I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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Shoulda sent a thank you note, you little hoe Now Imma wrap your coffin wit a bow
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I am not interested in illustrating my time. A man’s 'time' limits him; it does not truly liberate him. Our age – it is of science – of mechanism – of power and death. I see no point in adding to its mammoth arrogance the compliment of graphic homage.
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Since PTSD is being exposed to death and the death of someone close, I felt really close to [the soldiers].
