Alex Pareene Quotes
I think humor can be an effective way of getting the point across, but there are definitely times where I just write very earnestly.
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
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I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
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I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.
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What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.
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I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So, performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.
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There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.
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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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I grew up in a small town in Georgia where nothing bad happened - it was like Mayberry.
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Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
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They changed the floor back to old school. They changed the uniform back to old school. Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
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I had a very loyal cult-like following, I feel. And I don't mean to complain about that.
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The first day I was in a daze thinking, ‘What am I doing? What’s my role?’ and then slowly we started writing with each other, and it was great. It took me way back to my high school days when I was playing in a rock band.
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To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however 'good' I may become, remains unchanged.
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A gentleman reading a poem that began withWhere is that man that never yet did hear Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen?Jonson calling his cook, asked if he had ever heard of her, who answering 'No,' demonstrate to him Lo, there the man that never yet did hear Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen.
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I was a wild child. It's nice, though, now to have grown up and be normal and domestic. I've become very traditional. Conservative, worldly and very wise but fun.
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I was always aware of 'Doctor Who,' but I didn't grow up with it.
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.
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I think humor can be an effective way of getting the point across, but there are definitely times where I just write very earnestly.
