Alexandra Cassavetes Quotes
I didn't plan to be a director until I was 35. For years I wanted to do anything but!
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.
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Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.
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My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.
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It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.
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The administration is manufacturing a crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security.
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Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
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The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.
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Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable.
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If it can be profitable to be green, that's just smart business.
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In the middle of my sophomore year, I was sent to boarding school, at the Cranbrook School for boys, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where I fell in love with Marilyn Monroe. I knew that she was the most beautiful woman in the world, and yet she was in pain, in need. She was unhappy. I believed that I could help her.
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Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic.
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There have been many people whom I have admired, emulated and even modeled parts of my life after. I study how they do things, and then I go through a period of 'trying on' those same thinking patterns and behaviors. After awhile, what is not essentially me falls away while the useful parts remain.
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I have so many fashion mistakes, but that's part of being in fashion. I think the people that you see make the most mistakes are usually the best dressers.
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I don't want a job, and I think I've been trying my hardest to make sure I don't have a job.
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Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.
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Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotchman happy!
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It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.
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The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
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The government can't solve every problem, but an enlightened government can make sure that people can work hard for their dreams and achieve them.
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O Son of Spirit! My first counsel is this: Possess a pure, kindly and radiant heart, that thine may be a sovereignty ancient, imperishable and everlasting.
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Its hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with
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I didn't plan to be a director until I was 35. For years I wanted to do anything but!
