Alexandra Fuller Quotes
There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, and it's too painful to connect in the world in any real way mid-process. The only way to survive is to write until it is all said and done.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.
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I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.
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Deal-making is an ability you're born with. It's in the genes.
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I basically live out of my truck - I mean from place to place. I feel more at home in my truck than just about anywhere, which is a sad thing to say, but it's true.
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Indians are sometimes accused of being condescending toward Westerners and of being excessively preachy in their attitude toward other nations. That accusation is sometimes correct.
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I think we're going in the right direction.
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There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, and it's too painful to connect in the world in any real way mid-process. The only way to survive is to write until it is all said and done.
