Alma Alexander Quotes
If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you - and if you don't, nobody can help you.
Quotes to Explore
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When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.
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I don't know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.
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I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
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I love graffiti because it enables kids from every social extraction to do something that brings them closer to art, when they normally wouldn't be stimulated to be visually creative. Graffiti helps to develop an awareness of immediate expressive and uncontrolled freedom.
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Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.
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A 007 James Bond image is very dangerous for a central banker to have.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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A little roller up along first; behind the bag! It gets through Buckner! Here comes Knight and the Mets win it!
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The transformation of human consciousness through meditation is frustrated, as long as we think of it in terms as something that I, my self can bring about. because it leads to endless games of spiritual oneupmanship, and Guru competitions.
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Either communism must die or Christianity must die because it's actually a battle between Christ and anti-Christ.
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree-and there will be one.
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Okay, sense of humor: plus one. Being able to laugh at yourself: plus one. Being able to laugh at other people without being mean: plus one. Vanity: minus one.
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I'd say I'm a pretty intense person. I'm definitely not my Denise character on 'Scrubs,' nor my Jane character on 'Happy Endings,' but I'm a mix of the two. I really feel that I'm kind of every character that I've ever played; it's just a part of me. And I am a bit of a control freak like Jane. I'm very, perhaps, obsessive like that.
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I had a nightmare about being on a cruise ship and the ship going down. It was an arduous process of the ship going down and we knew it was going down. There was everyone I know and love on the ship.
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I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.
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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
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I had been on the junior Olympic team in high school for trampoline; I could do twenty-six back flips in a row.
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I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.
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I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
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If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you - and if you don't, nobody can help you.
