Alissa White-Gluz Quotes
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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I travel a lot, and that makes it harder to date, but it also opens up opportunities for me to meet people where I wouldn't normally meet them.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female.
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I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.
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Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.
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I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.
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People have always asked me, 'Haven't you wanted to sell out?', and it's like, who am I going to sell to?
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The end of the Nineties was an unhappy Primus camp. I hit a creative stagnation that wasn't helping us forward, and the personal elements, it just was time to stop.
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I'm very conventional compared to my parents.
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My parents are supportive of anything I want to do, as long as it's not bad.
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Beauty pageants, you're only judged once. Sorority rush, you have to go through 20 parties.
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My parents, along with my brother and sister, are vegetarians.
