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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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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Sometimes when I'm flying over the Alps I think, 'that's like all the cocaine I sniffed.
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As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
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I drove an orange Camaro and dated a cheerleader. Life was good.
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The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said.
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The thin-lipped armorer, Hephaestos, hobbled away, Thetis of the shining breasts Cried out in dismay At what the god had wrought To please her son, the strong Iron-hearted man-slaying Achilles Who would not live long.
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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.
