Alana Stewart Quotes
I wish I had been a better mother and a more compassionate and understanding wife in both of my marriages.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people.
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Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
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If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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Expanding background checks will help create a uniform standard for all gun purchases and prevent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining powerful weapons.
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The troops aren't red and blue. They're not black and white. They're not male and female. They are Americans! When they put their uniforms on, they are Americans. And that's a fact.
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.
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It ain't over till it's over.
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When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most revealing material. There is no texture, no shades of gray. In fiction, you can bring the reader on the perilous journey with your characters as they discover that war is more like a wilderness of mirrors, full of danger and uncertainty.
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I always did music privately as a hobby, I think partly because I was nervous to do it in front of other people.
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I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some girls into St Martin's art school and saw a voluptuous woman sitting on a stool being sketched. I decided to get myself fired.
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My mother was a very positive thinker; she was always active, always doing something good.
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My mother grew up in abject poverty in Mississippi, an elementary school dropout. Yet, with the support of women around her, she returned to school and graduated as class valedictorian - the only one of her seven siblings to finish high school. She became a librarian and then a United Methodist minister.
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I wish I had been a better mother and a more compassionate and understanding wife in both of my marriages.
