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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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
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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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I started on 'Neighbours' when I was 14. It's crazy to think now that I had such a bizarre adolescence.
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I've used pseudonyms for various reasons. In my earliest days I was writing too much, and needed to shift some of the product over to other front men. I've also done it to establish the different tones of the different writings: Stark doesn't write very much like Westlake at all.
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I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!
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It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business - or so he said.
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I'm not a bad mimic, and I can pick up speech cadences that I would not pick up if I didn't hit the road.
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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.
