Alexa Ray Joel Quotes
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
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I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.
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U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.
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Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
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My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
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Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It's a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off marriage - for life!
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There have always been revivals. Some have always been successful. And many of them have failed.
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I was not into sci-fi, science fiction, at all. I was into some of the old pirate films with Burt Lancaster and stuff. I liked them.
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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In 1970 I realized that there was negligible risk from x-rays but many radiographs had poor image quality so that the risk from a false negative was significant.
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Whether you like it or not, you're a national figure after five games at Notre Dame.
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I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.
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The average Korean alive in 1945 was to a far greater degree the product of Japanese rule than the Choson Dynasty.
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People come up and say very nice things about my work, like, 'You were great in 'Blood Diamond!'
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There's no great shame in having your nose fixed.
