Alex Spanos Quotes
Nobody who knows me would believe this, but I was always the life of the party. Oh, how I loved to sing and dance, and we had good times. Good clean fun it was, too.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
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I make M-rated games for adults, you know, with guys wearing sunglasses at night and trench coats.
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Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.
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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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Katie Couric is one of my favorite people.
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No man can stand still; the moment progress is not made, retrogression begins. If the blade is not kept sharp and bright, the law of rust will assert its claim.
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Y'know, there are other possibilities if we assume that filenames are UTF-8...yikes...wait, put down that meat cleaver! Aieeee!!!
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In farm country, the plover has only two real enemies: the gully and the drainage ditch. Perhaps we shall one day find that these are our enemies, too.
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The man responsible for keeping Americans safe from another terrorist attack on American soil for nearly seven years now will go down in history as one of America's greatest presidents.
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Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.
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There's so much standing around and waiting with moviemaking!
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Fandom can keep something alive, and fandom can take it down.
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I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.
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They'd better be physically tough when they start pulling on their football pants.
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Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got great grades and Carl got the kind of grades I did. I failed everything. I was too busy fighting and running wild.
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It is a fairly serious thing that you're doing if you're writing about people who are still alive and who still have a role in public life. Sometimes you don't want to be reminded too much of the responsibility.
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I can think about what [Mahatma] Gandhi said or [Martin Luther] King said about violence begetting violence, and still be true to my job by asking myself the question whenever we're confronted with a situation where some may be arguing for military action: Will this actually result in America being safer, or the most lives being saved?
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Nobody who knows me would believe this, but I was always the life of the party. Oh, how I loved to sing and dance, and we had good times. Good clean fun it was, too.
