Alexandra Fuller Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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You try not to become so emotionally attached to your character, but you do.
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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.
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Well, as you know, I'm really only happy when I'm on stage.
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A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.
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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.
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I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.
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For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.
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I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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'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.'
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Did you know what would happen next? Did you know and sit there like God, silent, remorseless, useless?
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Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.
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If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.
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Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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In general, I almost always watch foreign films.
