Alexa Hirschfeld Quotes
People might say paper is dead or dying, but actually, it's not at all. It's just more rarified. The choice to send paper has more meaning because of the fact that you don't have to.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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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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I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
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Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.
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The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.
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The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
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I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard.
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At the end of the day, an actor is only a cog in the wheel.
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A weaker currency is a national tariff. After we get a weaker currency, we have to take advantage of that. Or else, we will waste it once more in inflation and in the inability to raise competitiveness.
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There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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I like talking about acting. I'm comfortable talking about acting.
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As an actor, I think it's really important to be as anonymous as possible. It's your job to convince people that you are somebody else, and so any recognition I'd get away from the screen - well, it's not something I actively seek. To be honest with you, I'm surprised anybody does.
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A lot of the things I do are obvious things that for some reason are not done. I could never figure this out. Why don't people do the obvious?
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Michael Joseph Jackson's genius was the ability to be the raw article himself - the real article himself. He is part of the African American people who were marginalized.
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I like to get up early in the morning and run.
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People might say paper is dead or dying, but actually, it's not at all. It's just more rarified. The choice to send paper has more meaning because of the fact that you don't have to.
