Alana Stewart Quotes

People might have the impression I had an easy life, but it's been anything but that.

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• 'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Fight

• There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• When I sing, people shut up.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Up
  • Sing

• The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • People
  • Great
  • Joy

• Life is about timing.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Life
  • Sports
  • Timing

• People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Today

• People realised this is real pollution; it is not fog. Now everyone has to face the data and come out of their comfort zone.

  

  Ma Jun
  • People
  • Real
  • Data

• I can be more cold than people would like me to be.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Me
  • Cold

• We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Job
  • Reality

• My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Father

• The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • People
  • Important
  • Design

• Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Me

• I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • People
  • World
  • Career

• Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Great
  • Bedrooms

• As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.

  

  Zoe Cassavetes
  • Life
  • Know
  • My Life

• I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Life
  • Believe
  • American

• One of the nice things about the United States is that, wherever you go, people speak the same language. So native New Yorkers can move to San Francisco, Houston, or Milwaukee and still understand and be understood by everyone they meet. Right? Well, not exactly. Or, as a native New Yorker might put it, 'Wrong!'

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • People
  • Nice

• I think it's ridiculous that you need to look a certain way to be conventionally pretty.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Pretty

• Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Time
  • Great
  • Day

• We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Songs
  • Lived
  • Pop

• Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • People
  • Like
  • Anniversary

• People might have the impression I had an easy life, but it's been anything but that.

  

  Alana Stewart
  • People
  • Life