Alex O'Loughlin Quotes

It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do not back yourself up, no one else is going to so you really need to learn to get up, shake the sand off your chest and keep going.

Alex O'Loughlin

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• When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Song
  • Myself

• I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Women
  • History

• I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Everyone

• Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Up
  • Different
  • Like

• May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Country
  • May
  • Heaven

• Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Nature
  • Control
  • Paranoid

• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Opportunity
  • Fruit
  • Seed

• It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • Man
  • Wise
  • Clever

• Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Alone

• Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • World
  • America
  • Culture

• As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Right

• I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Long
  • History
  • View

• My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Political
  • Spiritual
  • Islam

• Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Awesome
  • Moss

• Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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  • Time
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• I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.

  

  Carla Gugino
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  • Huge

• I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Life
  • Taken

• I write at home. I like to be able to take a nap, watch TV, make a sandwich, and if I wake up and don't feel like working, I'm not going to bang my head on my desk all day: I'll go out and do something else.

  Colson Whitehead
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  • Home

• I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• There was one point where my mother was dying of lung cancer, and a journalist dressed up as a nurse and got in the house to get a picture of her, dying of lung cancer and stuff like that, and then you realise the fame's not all it's cracked up to be.

  

  Pete Burns
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  • Mother
  • House

• Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus

• What's happened - in our country, anyhow - is that the young people have shied away from the formality of the concert hall, that tie - and - tails philharmonic image.

  

  Chuck Mangione
  • People
  • Country

• It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do not back yourself up, no one else is going to so you really need to learn to get up, shake the sand off your chest and keep going.

  

  Alex O'Loughlin
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