Alexandra Fuller Quotes

I write and I read, and I write and read my way into and out of ideas and life. And that's what we do. That's what storytellers do.

Alexandra Fuller

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• But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Want
  • Band

• Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Trying

• When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.

  

  A. E. Hotchner
  • People
  • World
  • Women

• Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Men
  • Women
  • Soul

• I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Real
  • Wish
  • Effort

• Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Capacity

• As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Home
  • Morning
  • Style

• The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Person
  • Period
  • Three

• I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Giving
  • Feeling
  • Tension

• It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Up
  • Good
  • Couple

• I don't really see myself as an actor.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Myself
  • Actor
  • See

• Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • She
  • Bird
  • Wings

• The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Women
  • Country
  • Struggle

• I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Good
  • Character
  • Bad

• The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Operations
  • Quarter
  • Washing

• At a person-to-person level, I think that there's always something to be said for having some empathy for the folks who really, really disagree with you about a given topic.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Think
  • You
  • Empathy

• I really love learning and working long hours.

  

  Doona Bae
  • Long
  • Learning
  • Working

• The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Wish
  • Party
  • Ideas

• Football used to be my god but no longer is. I still love it, I'm still aggressive, I still want to be very successful at it, I want to win a lot of football games. And my job is to be the best football player in the world, because it affords me a life; it pays, it's my job, and so it hasn't dulled my senses for the game or the love or the great excitement I get from the game. It's just that I'm very much at peace with myself because of my faith.

  

  Terry Bradshaw
  • World
  • Football
  • Player

• Karate aims to build character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; it does not, however, guarantee it.

  

  Yasuhiro Konishi
  • Character

• Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Soul
  • Friend
  • Husband

• The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Environment
  • Leader

• I think we seek out people who we hope will fix what our childhood broke.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • People
  • Life
  • Hope

• I write and I read, and I write and read my way into and out of ideas and life. And that's what we do. That's what storytellers do.

  

  Alexandra Fuller
  • Life