Alexander Gould Quotes
Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of that.
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Christlike feelings for all of Heavenly Father's children. When we develop this concern for the condition of others, we then will communicate with them as the Savior would.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
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It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.
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When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on.
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Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
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I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.
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Fame is a distraction sometimes. You know, it's a distraction if you let it. So it's very important to stay focused, stay very connected to your roots.
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I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness and demonize education and intellect. And I'm giving a pretty good description of Sarah Palin right now.
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I hate the bad rap that people give my parents. Because they are just parents, really, at the end of the day trying to stand up for their daughter and themselves.
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Born in England during the First World War, of Belgian parents with partly German roots, I grew up in the cosmopolitan city of Antwerp, where I had the benefit of a classical education taught in the two national languages of Belgium: French and Dutch.
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Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of that.
