Alex Sharp Quotes
It was nice to have a break from acting - there's a lot more to life than acting. And that's important - to be a good actor, you have to know that and to live that.
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
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Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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I want to see as many black professionals as possible.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.
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I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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I beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day.
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I always thought that if I wanted to do a family, I wanted to do it big. I wanted there to be chaos in the house.
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I don't read blogs, I don't have MySpace, I don't have Facebook or Twitter - none of that.
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Win or lose, I believe in giving my best and that is what I always do.
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The one cool thing about being underground is that it gives you such freedom. You have to be so on top of it, releasing singles all the time, doing videos all the time, and I don't know if I'm ready to give up that freedom.
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It was nice to have a break from acting - there's a lot more to life than acting. And that's important - to be a good actor, you have to know that and to live that.
