Alexander Koch Quotes

When I first went to college, I went to Western Michigan. I had been rejected by a bunch of schools for theater. I was like, 'I'm obviously not cut out for this, so I might as well just go into film.'

Alexander Koch

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• Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.

  

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• Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.

  

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• The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.

  

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• The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.

  

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• It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

  

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• If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.

  

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• I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.

  

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• I don't judge my characters.

  

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• I've never been a huge sweets eater, and I've always loved a Mediterranean diet. We eat a lot of dark leafy greens, and a couple meals each week are meat-free. We enjoy eating a balanced diet.

  

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• The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.

  

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• I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.

  

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• Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

  

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• I am really addicted to music.

  

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• I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

  

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• As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.

  

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• I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.

  

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• Embrace your weirdness!

  

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• I think I'm in a really nice position, where I'm sure I could do another show if I wanted to do one, but right now the main thing in my mind is writing songs.

  

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• And see the peaceful trees extend their myriad leaves in leisured dance- they bear the weight of sky and cloud upon the fountain of their veins.

  

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• The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.

  

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• Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said 'you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.' I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am.

  

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• I maybe convinced my parents to let me cut school once, but definitely, in college, I cut school a lot.

  

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• When I first went to college, I went to Western Michigan. I had been rejected by a bunch of schools for theater. I was like, 'I'm obviously not cut out for this, so I might as well just go into film.'

  

  Alexander Koch
  • College