Alex North Quotes

I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.

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• Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Time
  • Good
  • Others

• Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • Military
  • Soldiers

• I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Change
  • Challenge

• I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.

  

  Eamonn Walker
  • Truth
  • Myself
  • Acting

• I went to hockey camp at Michigan because my dad has some relatives in the Ann Arbor area. We went to visit them as kids, and you start to learn the language from being around people. At the same time, when I got to college, I thought my English was better than it really was. I learned a lot over my four years.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • People
  • Time
  • Kids

• I lived somewhat of a nomadic life, even when I lived in Ohio. We spent time in rural areas, in suburban areas, never really city areas. We rode four-wheelers. We had pigs and ferrets. And creeks. We had a creek in my backyard. It was like 'Huckleberry Finn.'

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Life
  • Time
  • City

• Every director's so different. Everybody has their own modus operandi and I love getting to know different directors in the way they work. David O. Russell is very exciting to be with because he's got a mind like quicksilver.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Work
  • Different
  • Mind

• Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Men
  • May
  • Dead

• I've always said that if I could do anything in the world, I would be a professional golfer.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • World
  • Professional
  • Said

• You don't usually get treated unfairly. You usually get what you deserve.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • You
  • Deserve
  • Unfairly

• Whenever I'd go to restaurants, the main chef came out and was cooking for me, and he's asking me how the food is. I get, like, VIP service, so it's weird.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Food
  • Service
  • Weird

• Oh, I love making independent films, it's such a special, magical thing because you collaborate with a small group of people and everyone's pitching in. You'll see producers setting up the lunch table and the sound guy driving a van. We're all really there because we want to be.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • People
  • Lunch
  • Magical

• The key to a resilient global recovery, where growth in each country advances growth in every country, is action directed at supporting demand at home.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Country
  • Home
  • Action

• I love to dress up and create a narrative with my look.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Look
  • Create
  • Dress

• I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Hands
  • Books
  • Smell

• It is on some, but not all, of these misty autumn day-breaks that one may hear the chorus of the quail. The silence is suddenly broken by a dozen contralto voices, no longer able to restrain their praise of the day to come.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • May
  • Silence
  • Broken

• Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Struggle

• I really started to enjoy Instagram more recently because it's something that shows people what I'm doing and what I'm going through, but it's so simple. I don't have to come up with something witty; it's just a funny photo, and you can be as artistic or as plain Jane as you want.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • People
  • Up
  • Funny

• Your success is no longer about your ability to do what you are told, and do it well.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Ability
  • Wells

• If you're showing people where it's smooth sailing, where is the joke? If you go back to any movie, even a conventional movie, with any comedians, they're either not terribly intelligent or they're not doing something well.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • People
  • Movie
  • Intelligent

• The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone 'Stuck in Love', with scrupulous respect for John Green's best-selling young-adult novel, the film sets out to make you weep - not just sniffle or choke up a little, but sob until your nose runs and your face turns blotchy. It succeeds.

  

  Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
  • Up
  • Book
  • Movie

• I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.

  

  Alex North