Alexandra Adornetto Quotes
We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, my aunt and my uncle. I have grown up with family writing competitions, and I can't remember a birthday or Christmas present that didn't include books.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world.
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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
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Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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It's hard to get concert tickets.
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Pretty much, I am always open to input from everyone; although I don't require it, the feedback is conducive to getting the play together.
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We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, my aunt and my uncle. I have grown up with family writing competitions, and I can't remember a birthday or Christmas present that didn't include books.
