Alexandra Bracken Quotes
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I don't have any nicknames.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
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I do not like violence.
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I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
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Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.
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Chris Guest has his own form. It's a way of working that is really intense, and you can commit a lot, and you focus a lot. You get to bring a lot. You get to bring things maybe you haven't seen before. You're asked to care a great deal for these people who you're playing and create heart and empathy.
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All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated.
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I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't think I've ever been able to watch a replay of a match or game of which the result was already decided. I feel bound to cheat and look up what can be looked up.
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I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy.
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I never look at my watch when I'm sketching!
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Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.
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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Oh, things are frequently what they seem,And this is wisdom's crown:Only the game fish swims upstream,But the sensible fish swims down.
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Ricky: You are the strangest man alive.
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The function of gossip is to create an 'in group' bond by creating an 'out group' enemy.
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Supposed former infatuation junkie, I sink three pointers and you wax poetically.
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Problems and issues will always be there, and they'll never leave our side, so the object is to have a good time and make fun out of whatever we do.
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We divert our attention from disease and death as much as we can; the slaughterhouses are huddled out of sight and never mentioned, so that the world we recognize officially in literature and in society is a poetic fiction far handsomer, cleaner and better than the world that really is.
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The spirit in which you do something is often as important as the act itself.
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Of course, plenty of people don't think that guaranteeing affordable health insurance is a core responsibility of government.
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It is too soon to tell, but old, tired 'Survivor' last night beat 'X Factor.' We're really proud of that. We're anticipating a very strong season for CBS.
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Being a very tall person, I have always felt a kinship with giraffes.
