Alana Stewart Quotes
Somewhere deep inside me was the will and determination not only to live, but to be a more present mother for my kids, instead of one who was emotionally unavailable because she was in so much pain, as my own mother was.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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I'm unemployable in any other capacity.
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I have a close association with Gen. Petraeus... What you get in Dave Petraeus is a very unique officer, a combination of intelligence, extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding.
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Zionism is a revolutionary process. And in a revolution, you must be ready not to think too much about sentiments or human weaknesses.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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In primary schools, I set two main objectives - to cut infant class sizes and improve literacy and numeracy.
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I don't recall being excited about a new rapper, ever.
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Seeing that we were book enthusiasts, my mother began hauling my sister and me down to the Stanton Free Library on Tuesday afternoons, where I'd find two or three books to bring home.
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We live in an age dominated by the problem of limits. We are witnessing the end of progress. We have reached the saturation point. Are we going beyond these limits? Are we going to take the risk? There is much work to do to maintain the planet.
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Somewhere deep inside me was the will and determination not only to live, but to be a more present mother for my kids, instead of one who was emotionally unavailable because she was in so much pain, as my own mother was.
