Alana Stewart Quotes
Being friends with anyone for 30 years is no easy task - people change, they drift apart, they move on.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.
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It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group.
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You really need to be on the edge and you have to keep your eyes open.
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I am extremely grateful for two big gifts from my father. First, my sense of humor - the ability to see the humor in something while it is happening. That has cushioned my life. I am also grateful for the work of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. It has enriched my life and made me a very different person.
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You never say never to nothing.
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Being friends with anyone for 30 years is no easy task - people change, they drift apart, they move on.
