Alexandra Fuller Quotes
The most basic human impulse is toward entropy and laziness. The less we have to do to grow spiritually, the more likely we are to do it.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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Some films shouldn't be remade.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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My family is weird in a very good way because I was always exposed to the arts.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
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I live in Harlem, New York City. I am unmarried. I like 'Tristan,' goat's milk, short novels, lyric poems, heat, simple folk, boats and bullfights; I dislike 'Aida,' parsnips, long novels, narrative poems, cold, pretentious folk, buses and bridges.
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The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.
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I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing.
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While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.
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Senegal needs a renaissance.
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Some days I'll have good starts, and some days I'll have bad starts. I'm really focusing on having more good starts than bad starts, and I traditionally do. But I would hate to make it all the way to the Olympics and have a bad starting day.
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I'd only been in the business three or four years, but I told myself that someday I'd like to be Mort Janklow.
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I was really nervous, intimidated by the whole thing-all the people and all the buzzing, and all the sitting around waiting. I felt really small in this huge place.
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You have to live in reality: not in what might happen but what is happening.
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Fans want real songs, they want real experiences, and they want real instruments.
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I always enjoyed playing around Washington, because we always have a good crowd. I've never had a bad crowd in this vicinity from here Alexandria, up to Washington and on to right around Baltimore. They've been some good fans.
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With The King Center as her base, my mother pressed on to fulfill a role that changed lives and legislation. She was a woman who refused to surrender the reigns of what she knew to be her assignment, even when male civil rights and business leaders tried to convince her that she should leave the work of building her husband's legacy to them.
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It's funny how even when the sky falls around us, people still have to make pancakes.
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The most basic human impulse is toward entropy and laziness. The less we have to do to grow spiritually, the more likely we are to do it.
