Alice-Leone Moats Quotes
On Philadelphia society: The parties remind me of the Gay Nineties - the men are gay and the women are in their nineties.
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.
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When you are clinically diagnosed with depression as a teenager, sometimes people don't understand it. You feel like you should be happy, especially when you have a very lucky upbringing, and you blame yourself.
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I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
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The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.
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About once every four days, someone comes up to me and is like, 'Hey, I know you from somewhere.'
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When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then.
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But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there.
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Different people's houses smell like different weird things. God forbid someone should come and nail down what my house smells like. It'd probably be a litter box... sweaty socks... and burnt bacon. That probably is what it smells like.
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'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.
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Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.
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I've never even come close to having a one-night stand.
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I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties.
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Nobody said being platinum was easy.
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I knew that I was going to dedicate my life to music and that was it.
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On Philadelphia society: The parties remind me of the Gay Nineties - the men are gay and the women are in their nineties.
