Alex North Quotes
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When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.
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I love researching, I love interviewing.
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I'd rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them What's the good of living if you can't have the things that give a little enjoyment?
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When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'
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The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.
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I don't need to be a frontman all the time, and in fact, the older I get, the less of an urge it is inside me to play that role. I've still got it inside me, and I do occasionally allow it out.
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What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
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It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.
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Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.
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I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.
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It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.
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They say I'm a conservative, but I consider myself I true liberal.
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Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire, And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire, Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves, So late emerged from, shall so soon expire.
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Knowing how they were sleeping on a dirt floor at that very moment, while I had a soft pillow under my head, made me feel incredibly guilty.
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The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.
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The beloved objects that we had carried with us from place to place were now left behind in the wagon and, with them, finally, our illusions.
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When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time.
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I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute walking to the tube, and the next being driven along the same stretch of road in a limo.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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I truly do have the most amazing child on the face of the earth. I know all parents say that about their child, but Taylor truly is special.
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There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved.
