Alexandra Fuller Quotes
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For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001.
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You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.
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The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup.
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When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.
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To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.
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Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.
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I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.
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I've always been a reader and a writer.
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Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
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When I was a little girl, my grandfather, who I was very close to, used to grow yellow roses. He had yellow roses growing all the way up his drive.
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We are all so busy and constantly trying to save time and balance everything.
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Every crowd has a silver lining.
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People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
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It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.
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Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.
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I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
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I make a point of writing, if only a little, every day, as a kind of discipline so that it is not a whim but a piece of work.
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Sorry, I’m not at home. I have gone out to my world Fancy, and I cannot be reached. Call back in a week, unless your business is urgent, in which case call back in a month.
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Whoso walketh in solitude, And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock, and bird, Before the money-loving herd, Into that forester shall pass From these companions power and grace.
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The smartest people in the world are not in charge, they work for the action takers.
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Inspiration, it is well recognized, rarely comes unless an individual has immersed himself in the subject. He must have a rich background of knowledge and experience in it.
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In the face of postwar austerity, hundreds of brides-to-be across the country sent Princess Elizabeth their clothing coupons so that she could have the dress of their dreams.
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In the past a man was expected to give his seat on a bus to a woman. Today it would be much more courteous for that man to give her his job.
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I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.
