Alexa Chung Quotes
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So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.
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I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
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I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
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There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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I remember someone telling me that when he saw the back of a woman's head, he knew that was the woman he was going marry. I laughed that away as silly talk. But I guess when a relationship has to happen, it happens seamlessly. Your partner just walks into your life.
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In the studio, there's no tiptoeing. As opposed to big, blow-out arguments, there are just lots of little solutions.
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I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.
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If I had to do it all over again, would I want my dad here? I would say no. Our world is in a better place because our father gave his life.
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You must understand, that for a daughter to protect her father's image is natural; Freud built a whole career around it.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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In theater and dance, I was trying to win someone's approval, trying to get in, trying to be good. It felt out of my control, whereas music suddenly felt like this free expression. It was fun.
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My father taught me how to draw horses - for this I shall be eternally grateful.
