Alexandra Cassavetes Quotes
I don't know about relationships. Maybe I'm supposed to travel and make films and meet people and have adventures instead.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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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 actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.
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I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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I'm very, very used to hearing no - repeatedly! - and through my experience founding startups, I've learned to view those two little letters not as a final roadblock but as a problem to be solved.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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I come from a coffee-loving family, and you can always tell when my sister and I have been around, because both of us collect all the dead coffee from everyone's morning cup, pour it over ice, and drink it. This is a disgusting habit.
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When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she's looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother and a mother gives a child.
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Whenever people are excited about 'My Girl', I always think if I met the kids from 'The Neverending Story.' I would probably be the same way.
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Nothing terrifies me more than being social.
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I don't know about relationships. Maybe I'm supposed to travel and make films and meet people and have adventures instead.
