Alessandra Torresani Quotes
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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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For me, it's always been about preparation, and the more prepared I can be each week, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
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Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing while other kids were getting together and doing things. But it just made me closer to my family, and I realized that they would always be there no matter what.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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I would like to do something that pushes me as an actress to make me better. I would love to do something dramatic or crazy. I think that would be so much fun.
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.
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More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.
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I think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips.
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He ranged his tropes, and preached up patience;Backed his opinion with quotations.
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GRUBSTREET - The name of a street near Moorsfield, London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems.
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I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so nothing of what I was studying seemed to fit. I know now that I should have taken advantage of that time and that I missed a great deal of the opportunity to educate myself.
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I want to be the poster girl for engineers and computer nerds.
