Alexandra Fuller Quotes

I did not know that for the things that unhorse you, for the things that wreck you, for the things that toy with your internal tide - against those things, there is no conventional guard.

Alexandra Fuller

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• During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Fun
  • Like
  • Listen

• Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Me
  • Training
  • Providence

• Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Think
  • Existence
  • Jews

• When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Try

• We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Way
  • Need

• For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Problem
  • Simple
  • Answer

• Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Up
  • Never
  • Height

• How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the reader, the last shot at 'nailing' it. I love to write ending lines; usually, I know them first and write toward them, but if I knew how they came to me, I wouldn't tell.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Important
  • Love
  • Chance

• Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.

  

  Finn Jones
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I'm sure every designer has a certain person in mind who they would ideally like to wear their clothes, but the problem is that a lot of the time that person doesn't actually exist, unless she is a 15-year-old model.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Time
  • Mind
  • She

• I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• My belief is in the chaos of the world and that you have to find your peace within the chaos and that you still have to find some sort of mission.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Peace
  • Chaos

• Hector Lavoe is the greatest of all time. Marc Anthony is the second greatest.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Time
  • Greatest
  • Second

• The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Live
  • Science
  • Earth

• Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Live
  • History
  • Period

• I was nine full months In the womb of Ceridwen. Before that I was Gwion, But now I am Taliesin.

  

  Taliesin

• Instruct me how to thank thee! Oh, to shoot My soul's full meaning into future years, That they should lend it utterance, and salute Love that endures, from life that disappears!

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Future

• I've always been fond of the idea expressed in Buddhist art, that there are certain objects that, just by seeing them, can plant a seed for liberation in the individual. That class of objects is called "liberation through seeing." Certain Buddha images are like that, but if it were possible, I would like to find contemporary non-traditional sacred images. Maybe it sounds pretentious, but most spiritual paths point to the possibility that we all can access the deep, absolute dimensions of reality.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Spiritual

• Everyone has some dysfunction in their families. They have to deal with it. You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Families
  • Dysfunction

• I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Different
  • Want
  • Play

• This is the short and the long of it.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Long
  • Memorable
  • Merry

• If I am duly compared to Marlon Brando at all, well, I can only think of The Teahouse of the 'Shanghai Noon,' that they're comparing me to that!

  

  Tom Hardy
  • Thinking
  • Compare

• I did not know that for the things that unhorse you, for the things that wreck you, for the things that toy with your internal tide - against those things, there is no conventional guard.

  

  Alexandra Fuller