Alexandra Adornetto Quotes
Writing was something I have always been interested in. I've grown up in a household full of books, with both my parents English teachers and very booky.
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.
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I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate.
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I acknowledge the right of the authorities and the press to satisfy themselves as to whether I am the anthrax mailer. This does not, however, give them the right to smear me and gratuitously make a wasteland of my life in the process. I will not be railroaded.
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It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
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As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can raise my voice with the hope of being heard I need to do it, but I wouldn't assign a special wisdom and responsibility to writers.
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Here in Europe, I think that there are a lot of young people who forget the issues that were at stake during the Cold War.
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Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.
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Writing was something I have always been interested in. I've grown up in a household full of books, with both my parents English teachers and very booky.
