Alex Morgan Quotes
I grew up always having dessert after dinner. Always. It's such a hard habit for me to break. It's fine to have dessert every once in a while, but not seven days a week!
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It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.
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People are like, 'Was it hard growing up mixed?' 'Did you not fit in?' and I'm like, 'No? What? That's the dumbest question ever.'
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This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.
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For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually pretty hard to manage. Because I'm not allowed to do a make-up day. I can't do two pages the next day. The punishment for not completing my page is that I have to eat a vegetarian meal the next day.
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I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
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It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.
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I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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Rihanna is always on my playlist. I think she pumps you up and gets the day going. I also love - and I know this doesn't sound like a workout album - the Lumineers, lately, and Taylor Swift.
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To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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I primarily live in New York City, a place that is about constants, not letting up and not stopping.
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In films I might look glamorous, but I've been in hair and make-up for two hours.
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I'm named after a computer and grew up really interested in them.
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Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.
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The clarinet is not so dominant in Israeli music as it is in klezmer. I heard klezmer when I was growing up, but for some reason I avoided it. I listened to Louis Armstrong instead. But the sense of melody is the connection between jazz and klezmer.
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Gay marriage should be legalized in america because gay men are the only men who want to be married.
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When people told me 'It's great to be here', they meant at the house, not with me.
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People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.
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I grew up always having dessert after dinner. Always. It's such a hard habit for me to break. It's fine to have dessert every once in a while, but not seven days a week!
