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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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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In question-and-answer sessions after a reading or during an interview, I forget the question if I'm giving too long an answer. And at the end, I can't remember any of the questions. The more anxious I am about remembering, the more likely I am to forget.
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Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
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I have always been interested in fashion and even contemplated being a fashion designer at one point of time.
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It's never too late to try to end a conflict.
