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 have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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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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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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People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.
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I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
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In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.
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Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.
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I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.
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I love what I do. I love to capture the guy. I love to tell the victim 'Don't worry anymore. They're in jail.' And this is my way to heaven. This is my way to contribute to America what I know how to do best, and that's chase down the predator.
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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.
