Alex Sharp Quotes
I might not have been academically gifted - I was bad at maths, and science was a struggle - but I was good at English literature and became hooked on theatre.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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I think I need security.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
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I tend to latch on to things and not let go.
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Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.
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I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I might not have been academically gifted - I was bad at maths, and science was a struggle - but I was good at English literature and became hooked on theatre.
