Alexandra Fuller Quotes

In general, I almost always watch foreign films.

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• I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.

  

  A. Scott Berg
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• My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.

  

  Ian McShane
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• It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.

  

  Dakota Fanning
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• Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
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• You try not to become so emotionally attached to your character, but you do.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
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• I always wear the shoes of the character a week before going on set; the idea of just putting on a new pair of shoes on the first day of filming is just horrific.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• Well, as you know, I'm really only happy when I'm on stage.

  

  Larry David
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• A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.

  

  Earl Wilson
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• Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

  

  Carl Sagan
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• I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.

  

  Laura Bush
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• For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
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• I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
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• I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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• I wasn't intentionally trying to be different, but that was an element of what I naturally do that happened to be unique enough to spark a curiosity for people.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• My parents are very good parents and have already said that they will look after me until the end of my skating career.

  

  Patrick Chan
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• Did you know what would happen next? Did you know and sit there like God, silent, remorseless, useless?

  

  Kage Baker
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• Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.

  

  Bruce Springsteen
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• If anything is scary about my writing, it's that it's the product of a very particular vision and doesn't reference common speech that heavily. By 'common speech,' I don't mean language as much as an agreed-on way of seeing, or a shorthand.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
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• I am delighted that Jason Gardener will be taking over from me as President of U.K. Athletics. With his competitive background in the sport as an Olympic champion coupled with his engaging personality and his experience as a board member of U.K. Athletics, he possesses all the qualities required to be a successful president.

  

  Lynn Davies
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• Live your life in every way to earn and keep the respect of the people you respect.

  

  Brian Tracy
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• ... two men could be just alike in all their dispositions to verbal behavior under all possible sensory stimulations, and yet themeanings or ideas expressed in their identically triggered and identically sounding utterances could diverge radically, for the two men, in a wide range of cases.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
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• Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we're having a good time.

  

  Joan Jett
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• In general, I almost always watch foreign films.

  

  Alexandra Fuller