Alafair Burke Quotes

The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity.

Alafair Burke

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I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.

Carla Gugino
- People
- Time
- Different
People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.

Karl Lagerfeld
- People
- Think
- Hate
People are like, 'Was it hard growing up mixed?' 'Did you not fit in?' and I'm like, 'No? What? That's the dumbest question ever.'

Laura Harrier
- People
- Up
- Growing
I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't.

Ice T
- People
- Think
- Wall
Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.

Walter Cronkite
- May
- Sometimes
- Famous
Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.

Laura Linney
- People
- Attention
- Some