Alex O'Loughlin Quotes
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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
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In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.
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I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
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I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.
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I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
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You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
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I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.
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Taylor being married and so on, that does evolve the dynamic on the road.
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Twitter is an amazing public tool with an incredible capacity for public good.
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I love being part of huge mega blockbusters, and I love being a part of small independent films and small stage.
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I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around.
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We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.
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What I do is I always try to educate myself about my neighbors, about the people I meet.
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I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.
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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
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To be honest, I wasn't crazy about the kind of poetry I found in high school English books. I didn't get really excited about poetry until I discovered Lorca in college. If it wasn't for surrealism, I'm not sure I'd have become so involved in poetry. I was attracted by the extravagant imagery and elements of fantasy. This was in the '70s and it seemed to fit the psychedelic mood of the times. I found it liberating.
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If the financial system collapses, it's really, really hard to put it back together again.
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If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?
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Similarly, establishing a firm timeline for bringing our troops home could accelerate the development of Iraqi security forces and deepen their commitment to defending their own country and their own government.
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The best part of social media is that you can reach a lot of people. But that's also the worst part of social media.
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I like playing the villain.
