Alexa Chung Quotes
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan to keep America safe is resonating with voters.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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We don't merge kernel code just because user space was written by a retarded monkey on crack.
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A lot of people will think I changed the book: ‘so you’re the tiger instead, you’re the tiger who ate the cook.’ That’d be totally expository, like in the book, ‘you’re the tiger’ and then it stops there. That seems to have the magic touch. I bring everything together. That’s why he made up the story, the whole thing becomes internalized. That might be the magic, but all I did is not so much interpreted, but try my best to keep everybody still staying in the movie. And I was like, ‘God, it’s so hard to do.’ I make movies for a long time. It doesn't get easier.
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It's fashionable for modern actors to talk about getting 'inside' a character. But you can't get to the inside without getting the outside right first.
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We just believed in each other, got defensive stops when we needed them and executed our offense. We were able to make something happen.
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I don't think I extend my hatred to other people's outfits.
