Alexander Smith Quotes
The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
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The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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Originally, I thought English was more my home. But Spanish is so much more romantic. I've had to learn new phrases. I've had to learn to be more secure about singing in Spanish. But I'm working on it.
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I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
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We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
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Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.
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I love girl power.
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The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.
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I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
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There is a sense of purity in theatre which always attracts me. Deep down, I feel I am more of an artist than a commodity, which Bollywood turns you into. I want to strike a balance.
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I eat healthy and don't even get on a scale. I have my favorite jeans that I wear, and if they are getting too snug, I watch what I eat for a week.
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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
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The President is an elected king, but the fact that he is elected has proved to be of far less significance in the course of political evolution than the fact that he is pragmatically a king. … Kings have often been selected this way in European history, and the Roman Emperor was regularly chosen by election.
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We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if we can't unplug from that machine, eventually we're going to become mindless.
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Our brain starts a long degenerative arc beginning around age 40.
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My mother was a very wise and strong person.
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The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
