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 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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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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The L.A Trilogy is a series of three novels starring Ray, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer called Googol. Set in an alternative version of 1960s Los Angeles, each book will be more or less standalone but together will form an overarching story arc with 'Brisk Money' as the origin story.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.
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A definite highlight was doing 'The Brothers McMullen.' Shooting that movie was such a joy - and then we wound up winning the Sundance Film Festival. That big-break moment is visceral. It happens once in a decade, maybe once in a lifetime.
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By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
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The only story my grandfather tells me about his days in the NFL is how much better he was than me.
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I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the movie kind of martial arts.
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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.
