Alexa Hirschfeld Quotes
The biggest challenge is to stay focused. It's to have the discipline when there are so many competing things.
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
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For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.
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Cameras in the courtroom is a great idea.
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
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To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
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I started sailing because I had to stop playing tennis so much, as I had bad knees.
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Whenever you come back from an injury like that, it takes time to get your rhythm back. The only thing I tell Caron is, 'Keep taking open shots. Don't turn down shots.' Sometimes he has a tendency to do that, to put his head down. I hate when he does that. He needs to keep shooting.
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The biggest challenge is to stay focused. It's to have the discipline when there are so many competing things.
