Alexandra Fuller Quotes
Yes, as an oppressed people, American Indians have this epic burden, but first and foremost, they're human: sometimes a mess, sometimes funny or sad, at times very wise, and other times not wise at all - a lot like me.
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We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.
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I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
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I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.
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If you've been in a film that's seen by millions and millions and millions of people, you're more likely to be recognized for that than for your theater performances, which were seen by considerably less people. Why would I get upset by that?
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I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they did coming in.
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You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
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I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
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It's such a small industry here you inevitably end up working with the same people over and over again. There are only so many actors to go around, which is good for us.
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
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I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.
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As you reach more people, there is a potential to make a living with what you are creating, and that's the goal.
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I wouldn't wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I've come to know her that way, too.
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I think, as I've gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do.
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All around the circle, feeding on the green, green grass were fat and happy horses...
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The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.
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Yes, as an oppressed people, American Indians have this epic burden, but first and foremost, they're human: sometimes a mess, sometimes funny or sad, at times very wise, and other times not wise at all - a lot like me.
