Alexandra Bracken Quotes
'The Darkest Minds' came from a period in my life where I felt my most powerless, when I was a teenager.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.
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It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
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We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.
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I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.
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Craft is part of the creative process.
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When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'
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None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them.
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I grew up dancing my whole life, and I always kind of perceived that's what I would do professionally. But when I caught the acting bug, I knew I needed to go with no turning back.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home.
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Veterans are my life's work. From the day my buddies saved my life in Iraq, I've woken up every single day dedicated to taking care of veterans and doing my best for veterans.
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You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
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Doing 'Malcolm and Eddie' was probably the foremost miserable years of my life.
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I don't watch a lot of TV. I just don't have a whole lot of time, and my life is so disorganized, I don't have any kind of consistent schedule. Usually, I pop in a DVD or flip around when I get home at 4 in the morning and try to fall asleep.
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I myself brought Deism no more to Bavaria than to Rome or Italy. I found it there already; and I shall give the reasons below, just why in the most fanatical countries, and more under Catholicism than Protestantism, this sort of person is found in such a measure and multitude.
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I had to study acting to basically educate myself.
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That's the beauty of backbends. Emotionally we can never be disturbed, for the emotional centre becomes an extrovert. When you do Viparita Dandasana, your head looks backwards, but your conscious mind stretches everywhere. Study by observing how the mind gets regulated. You not only know the freedom in the spine, but also the freedom in the spirit.
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I used to sing Chaka Khan tunes in the car with my mum when I was eight years old.
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'The Darkest Minds' came from a period in my life where I felt my most powerless, when I was a teenager.
