Alexandra Bracken Quotes
The truth is, I love history and studied it in college, with a particular focus on early American history. My love is so deep, in fact, I went to school at The College of William & Mary in Colonial Williamsburg.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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The devil made me do it.
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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There are no silos at 'Frontline.' Our digital team works with our filmmakers, and our filmmakers work with our digital team. They're always in touch, and they're always talking.
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I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.
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'Damages' was cool. It brought me back to New York for a little while, so that was a lot of fun, and I was obviously very excited about the opportunity to work with Rose Byrne and Glenn Close. I'd been a fan of that show before I started working on it.
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I would like to thank the 49 actors who appear on screen in 'Whiplash' for realizing Damien Chazelle's vision so beautifully.
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No country should waste wireless spectrum. Especially not India, where the cellphone has become the personal computer.
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Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.
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Tales of great heroism were being told... at my parents home in Wirt County, West Virginia, it was understaged by media all repeating the story of the 'little girl Rambo' from rural West Virginia who went down fighting. It was not true.
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First of all, I'm happy that I'm healthy.
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The truth is, I love history and studied it in college, with a particular focus on early American history. My love is so deep, in fact, I went to school at The College of William & Mary in Colonial Williamsburg.
