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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All nonmimetic fiction is a balancing act between 'reality' and the obviously unreal, with no attempt by the author to make the latter seem like the former. Sometimes it's not an easy tightrope to walk. But when it succeeds, such fiction can brilliantly illuminate the human condition.
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Maybe it's time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
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It sucks being judged by the world instead of your close friends or family. I try to just realise that the only people who matter are my family and friends.
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Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.
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As a prominent conservative told me that year, "We need to go out into the wilderness for a long time, and figure out how we can one day return.”
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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.
