Alma Alexander Quotes
You have never felt the weight of disappointing love or of failing to live up to expectations. The only thing you've ever been is lonely by yourself – you have no idea how desperate it is to be lonely in the midst of people who love you, and whom you would have done anything to make happy...
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down or easy to swallow are uninteresting... It's good when people have such a polarizing response.
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I'm just in love with Burberry. Always have been, always will be.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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I love TV.
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I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.
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I love going to second-hand stores.
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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I never was happy with the job I did in 'Ed Wood.'
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I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
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Love, and do what you like.
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I love England. I don't really like places when they're too hot. It's my Celtic blood.
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Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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I would love to do Broadway again.
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I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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When you're in nature, when you're going to bed when the sun goes down and getting up when the sun rises, and you get into that rhythm, your body just really responds positively to it.
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I mean, really, whatever you woke up worrying about this morning, get over it. How important in the greater scheme of things can it possibly be? Make your peace and move on.
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I won the lottery. I don't care what it costs.
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For the left-leaning, political identity is liable to be closely intertwined with personal identity. The left is collusive, if not presumptuous: should you get on well with leftists at a party, they will blithely assume that you share the same views on the invasion of Iraq, even if all you've talked about is the canapes.
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You have never felt the weight of disappointing love or of failing to live up to expectations. The only thing you've ever been is lonely by yourself – you have no idea how desperate it is to be lonely in the midst of people who love you, and whom you would have done anything to make happy...
