Alissa White-Gluz Quotes
Fighting the ongoing war in your day-to-day life, everybody has their battle going on that nobody else knows about.
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Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
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Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
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I never felt more loved than when I was with Elvis.
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Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to the billions who disagree with them, have somehow lucked into the one true belief system.
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When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.
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We are not generally included in that narrative - people of color - definitely, women of color don't normally fit that narrative that has been built around the whole image and the whole story of the Silicon Valley.
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The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get through the day. When I'm writing, I have to trick myself as a writer. If I consciously say, 'I'm writing,' I feel all this pressure and somehow it doesn't feel as real as when it doesn't seem to count as much.
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Fighting the ongoing war in your day-to-day life, everybody has their battle going on that nobody else knows about.
