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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What happened this far remote would have little political impact on Earth. What the visual media could not carry into living rooms, the general public could not long remain exercised about. Statistically, a majority of the electorate could not or did not read complicated issues; no pictures, no news; no news, no event.
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It's not going to be just humans colonizing space, it's going to be life moving out from the Earth, moving it into its kingdom. And the kingdom of life, of course, is going to be the universe.
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Leaders spend 5% of their time on the problem & 95% of their time on the solution. Get over it & crush it!
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They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That is too much, even for a joke. ... Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder... And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.
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I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.
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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.
