Alexander Wang Quotes
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There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.
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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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I'm not really into weight training.
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A lot of things can't be modeled very well.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.
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The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.
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New York publishing is about, 'What's the next Harry Potter? What's the next Twilight?' When I've approached people, I've asked, 'What is the book you've been dying to do, but New York won't do?' I want the books that they think won't sell - because I think they will.
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I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.
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I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.
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Where music leads, I follow.
