Alex Graves Quotes
Especially as a director on 'West Wing,' I directed a lot of different things in a lot of different ways and really stretched my wings.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.
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I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.
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It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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The electro scene is all over the clubs now: groups like Duck Sauce, Empire of the Sun, even MGMT. But I get inspiration from everywhere. I'll go to the gym and put on old albums - Guns N' Roses or old Jay-Z.
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You can't impose a legacy.
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I've got a publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who's been working little miracles for me, but it's true the budgets aren't what they once were in terms of advertisement and book tours.
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I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.
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My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.
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I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.
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Wearable technology is not just for consumers. It creates a tremendous opportunity for businesses, too.
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I have carried bills concerning Sudan. I've carried bills concerning Congo. I've carried bills concerning North Korea and Iran and Iraq.
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My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.
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I really try to balance my feminine and masculine energy when I write.
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The way Jacques Brel writes a story, getting into the character, bringing out all his faults and qualities in the same song.... Not that I could ever write in such an epic way, but it really is a different way to go about writing lyrics...and I find that quite inspiring.
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I'm trying my best.
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I enjoyed my 20s - they were torturous and beautiful. I learned so much about myself and about life and about the nature of people.
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Yeah, the whole 'One Tree Hill' experience made me realize I wanna write, and produce, and direct as well as act. I'm interested in all facets of the industry.
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Especially as a director on 'West Wing,' I directed a lot of different things in a lot of different ways and really stretched my wings.
