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 used to be scared of pretty girls, until one confessed they're just as scared of me.
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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
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As a result of overdiversification, their (active managers) returns get watered down. Diversification covers up ignorance. Active managers haven't done enough research into any of their companies. If managers have 200 positions, do you think they know what's going on at any one of those companies at this moment?
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Television is hard work. It's all hard work. Theatre is hard work. I tell you, I have bruises from changing backstage. Those quick changes are really difficult.
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In general, I just try to make the people that I'm shooting feel like they are in good hands. I'm open-minded, and I invite them to be open-minded to the process. I'm direct and curious.
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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.
