Alexander Hanson Quotes
Often you get wonderful singers who maybe aren't as strong as actors, or you get wonderful actors who can't sing very well.
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I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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I didn't know what was going through my mind.
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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 love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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I always wanted to have a headphone line but I feel like I'm going to do more than just headphones eventually, but we want to wake the world up right now with this.
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I found Hollywood pretty bruising and uncreative. The executives are all in thrall to the boss, and spend their times double-guessing him or her, and trying to remember what he/she said and then applying them to the script, whether it was useful or not. They're all in fear for their jobs.
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I just really want it at some point to be OK for women and young girls to be sexy because I think that's a power, a gift that we were given by God or the universe or whatever.
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The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for women.
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Often you get wonderful singers who maybe aren't as strong as actors, or you get wonderful actors who can't sing very well.
