Chris Alexander Quotes
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
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I worked with HBO on 'Recount,' and we had a wonderful experience together. I'm such a fan of HBO and how much flexibility they give in character as well as schedule.
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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
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We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.
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I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.
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He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.
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With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
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If you watch dogs play, they run and they fight, but they don't fight to hurt each other. They just play. And that's been me my entire life.
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I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare.
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People are inexterminable like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices that's us.
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Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.
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It's never too late to try to end a conflict.
