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
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

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

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Know
  • Years

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

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Book
  • Remember

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

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Character
  • You
  • Try

• 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
  • Character
  • Day
  • Shoes

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

  

  Larry David
  • Happy
  • Know
  • Stage

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

  

  Earl Wilson
  • You
  • Vacation
  • Take

• 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
  • Life
  • World
  • History

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

  

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

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Years
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  • Many

• I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Music
  • May
  • Business

• 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
  • School
  • Mean
  • Singing

• 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
  • People
  • Different
  • Trying

• 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
  • Good
  • Career
  • Parents

• 'What harm have the trees done them?' he said. 'Must they punish the grass for their own faults? Men are savages, who would set a land afire because they have a quarrel with other men.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Men
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• Did you know what would happen next? Did you know and sit there like God, silent, remorseless, useless?

  

  Kage Baker
  • God

• My wife, there's certain kinds of housework that she just doesn't see as necessary to do in the way that I do. Things like the state of our closet or where things are in the kitchen. I have this almost unhealthily obsessive desire to have things in their place and she just totally doesn't. And this is a potential point of conflict, of course.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • She
  • Desire
  • Wife

• At the end of the day, we came into the world naked, and that's the way we're going to go.

  

  Sara Sampaio
  • World
  • Naked
  • Came

• He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Law
  • Thinks
  • Inexorable

• Adrienne Rich was one of the most widely-read and influential poets of her time, a leading feminist, known especially for her politically-engaged verse. Her best-known volume, "Diving into the Wreck," won the National Book Award in 1973.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Time
  • Book
  • Feminist

• When someone makes a move Of which we don't approve, Who is it that always intervenes? U.N. and O.A.S., They have their place, I guess, But first send the Marines!

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • War
  • Peace
  • Moving

• In general, I almost always watch foreign films.

  

  Alexandra Fuller