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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I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.
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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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The only thing that makes life tolerable is that people forget most of the stupid things I say as soon as I finish saying them.
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There's no social media or Googling yourself. You only have to do it once to learn never to do it again.
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I would have to go back to being a dog. I've called myself a dog for many years.
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I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
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It will become clear in the following chapters that Jesus was not originally considered to be God in any sense at all, and that he eventually became divine for his followers in some sense before he came to be thought of as equal with God Almighty in an absolute sense. But the point I stress is that this was, in fact, a development.
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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.
