Alex Breckenridge (Alexandra Hetherington Breckenridge) Quotes
For the most part, when you're on set, you know everything's fake. You're very aware of the fact that you're shooting a television show.
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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On Tumblr, I'm really careful about not following too many things. I enjoy going on there to discover new things more than anywhere else now.
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My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.
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You could pack for a trip to Europe with the bags under my eyes!
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My dad is an English teacher, and my mom is a textiles artist. My parents made my sisters and me feel that if we wanted to pursue something creative, it could be done. They've always been supportive of everything from the beginning.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.
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If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you.
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When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.
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'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.
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I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.
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As long as the reader is enjoying a story and the writing, it doesn't concern me if people don't understand why it's running backward or if it's running backward. I think disorientating a reader a bit can be really nice. Making them work and bringing their own past to play in a novel.
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If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings for periodic table panaceas is pretty much boundless.
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I almost wish we would've filmed a whole fake tampon commercial around "I'm With Her".
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We don't ever show up trying to plan who we play.
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For the most part, when you're on set, you know everything's fake. You're very aware of the fact that you're shooting a television show.
