Alex Winston Quotes

I took opera lessons. I can't read music to save my life, but I would just copy and get away with it. I think that they thought I could read music, but I can't. I would just listen.

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• I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.

  

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• I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.

  

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• I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I love it because it's funny and because I realize that I'm happier than Larry David.

  

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• I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

  

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• I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.

  

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• If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.

  

  Natalia Tena
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• In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.

  

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• The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.

  

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• I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.

  

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• The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.

  

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• It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

  

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• I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.

  

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• I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.

  

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• I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.

  

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• I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

  

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• With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.

  

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• All I ever wanted to do is make music.

  

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• If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'

  

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• It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience.

  

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• It was a big deal. At the end of the game, we're kicking an extra point to win the game.

  

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• It's been incredibly frustrating. The US government gave permission for the doctors to live in America, in freedom.

  

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• Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.

  

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• I took opera lessons. I can't read music to save my life, but I would just copy and get away with it. I think that they thought I could read music, but I can't. I would just listen.

  

  Alex Winston
  • Life
  • Music