Alexander Dale Oen Quotes
There is no single way to train, or do anything well. You have to keep thinking, keep doing things.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
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I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
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I need to have proper equipment when I work out, and the Nike Frees are light, comfortable, and great for training. I also usually bring a short-sleeve or long-sleeve compression shirt and a pair of shorts.
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.
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Math is one of my favorite subjects.
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At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.
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Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.
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I feel prematurely old. I'm actually having this major belated quarter-life crisis. I'm turning 30 in a couple of weeks. I've been thinking a lot about mortality. A lot about what I'm going to do with my life and how to enjoy it. One of the things I'm going to work on is being more spontaneous, letting go, embracing the beauty of come-what-may.
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In many traditions, hawks are sacred: Apollo's messengers for the Greeks, sun symbols for the ancient Egyptians and, in the case of the Lakota Sioux, embodiments of clear vision, speed and single-minded dedication.
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Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author's control.
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I think my cheerfulness keeps my writing from sinking into the depths of melancholy, while the darker side keeps in check any literary silliness I might be inclined toward.
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There is no single way to train, or do anything well. You have to keep thinking, keep doing things.
