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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I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.
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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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The majesty of the American Jewish experience is in its success marrying its unique Jewish identity with the larger, liberal values of the United States. There is no need anymore to choose between assimilation and separation. We are accepted as equals.
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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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I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.
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Letting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any society has yet discovered to detect maladjustments quickly, to correct injustices, and to discover new ways to meet our continuing stream of novel problems that rise in a changing environment.
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I love indices! They are poetry in and of themselves, depending on the book.
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I think we should be passionately curious about what we do.
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Being a very tall person, I have always felt a kinship with giraffes.
