Alexandra Bracken Quotes

Between the ages of 8 and 12, all I wanted to read were 'Star Wars' books.

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• Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Night

• As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Life
  • Game
  • Control

• I'm a big soccer fan, so any soccer player that I meet, I always get star struck. I've met a lot of big stars - Justin Timberlake, Michael Buble - and I don't ever get starstruck, but when I met famous ex-football players, I just got completely starstruck.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Football
  • Player
  • Star

• If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Promise
  • Public
  • Officials

• I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • American
  • Attention
  • Star

• I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Friends
  • Star

• I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the President of the United States!

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Star

• Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Star
  • Couple
  • Actor

• The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.

  

  Imelda Marcos
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  • Problems
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• I remember we would get young, aspiring actors to come on '77 Sunset Strip' - I remember George Kennedy was one of those - and they would do a big guest star part, a lead, and they'd be paid maybe $850.

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Remember
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• I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, 'Git 'r done!'

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • Done
  • Guy

• I think I am a star - I'm simply a funny-shaped star.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Funny
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• I was very, very thrown by the fact that I had to make some big changes in my life in order to be myself, but under this kind of movie-star banner.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Myself

• Everybody wants to be a star right now, to be heard, to have a voice, so you have to give the confidence for people to have that ability - and give them the wardrobe to become a star.

  

  Zac Posen
  • People
  • Star
  • Confidence

• Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Guy

• I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Work
  • Know
  • Star

• The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.'

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Work
  • House
  • Me

• Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Star
  • Sometimes
  • Impossible

• My pet peeve is when people come over to my house, and there are coasters, but they don't use a coaster.

  

  Chord Overstreet
  • People
  • House
  • Pet

• I'll admit I was curious about coaching a national team, but my experience with Greece was sufficient.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Experience
  • Team
  • Coaching

• I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front.

  

  Keith Emerson Emerson, Lake & Palmer
  • Trying
  • Nice
  • Random

• Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?

  

  Jean Kerr
  • Hand
  • Coffee

• Between the ages of 8 and 12, all I wanted to read were 'Star Wars' books.

  

  Alexandra Bracken
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