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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I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer.
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However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops.
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Two million felons have tried to buy a gun and, because of the background check, have been denied.
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In the theater, you get very close with everyone, and you have to because you're with each other all the time. I respect it. It's a challenge, but it's very worth the hard work.
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When I first started writing these kind of songs that would eventually become Decemberists songs, I was writing them because I knew that nobody was listening at the time and that it wouldn't hurt to challenge myself and get weirder and see if I could alienate more people
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The biggest challenge is to stay focused. It's to have the discipline when there are so many competing things.
