Chris Alexander Quotes
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I don't have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.
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Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.
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I enjoyed L.A. because it was nice to be in the sunshine and live in a house with proper wardrobes. I loved the space.
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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world.
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The Opposition should be concentrating on opposing the government rather than involving themselves in endless speculation.
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How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day?
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No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.
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Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
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Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.
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We don't have control over our lives. We just have control over how we take things.
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I wanted to write in you.
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EMDR, in which EMDR had better long-term results than Prozac in treating depression, at least in adult onset trauma.
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Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who knew them practically by heart, had the greatest respect for them, and considered them to be men of genius and superior intelligence who had carried their discoveries in every field much further than we today suspect, judging from what remains of their writings. More ancient writings have been lost than have been preserved, and perhaps our new discoveries are of less value than those that we have lost.
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I wake up to an email from the writers with the new script, and I always get so excited because I know it'll be better all-around than the script from the week before.
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We are better givers than getters, not because we are generous people, but because we are proud, arrogant people. The Christmas story-the one according to Luke, not Dickens-is not about how blessed it is to be givers but about how essential it is to see ourselves as receivers.
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I don't spend much time on the computer at all, so I do most of my email on my phone if I do any at all.
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In show business, you had levels. I was at the top of the TV end of it.
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E-mail importance is defined by the receiver, not the sender.
