Alexandra Bracken Quotes
I always try to have my supernatural or fantasy elements feel grounded in reality so they're easier for the reader to accept and digest.
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be demilitarized, there's no way to reverse statehood if it violates it.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
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I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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I think it's important to realize that we're all just human. I mean, nobody is supernatural.
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The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
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Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
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I see kids who are complete cynics. They're not dreaming. They're out there with high-powered weapons, smoking crack behind the 7-Eleven. They've seen it all. These kids are going to take us into 2000 and beyond. That's scary, man. I wouldn't say I'm pessimistic or optimistic. I'm more realistic, I guess. But not cynical. I look. I watch.
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If a playwright is funny, the English look for a serious message, and if he's serious, they look for a joke.
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I always try to have my supernatural or fantasy elements feel grounded in reality so they're easier for the reader to accept and digest.
