Alexandra Cassavetes Quotes
Love is a component of many different things - the baggage you bring, the moment, what you need in your life, seeing someone as a portal for understanding everything, and all the intensity that brings. It's not something to count on and act like it's a stable thing.
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I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.
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A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
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Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.
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Wally Amos is the classic example of a man who gets up again and again.
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To do a romantic scene is the most unromantic thing to do on screen.
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Love is a component of many different things - the baggage you bring, the moment, what you need in your life, seeing someone as a portal for understanding everything, and all the intensity that brings. It's not something to count on and act like it's a stable thing.
