Alexandra Fuller Quotes
I have heard over and over again that the drilling business is a dangerous business, and death is an expected part of the game, but I've also heard of the way that safety violations, human and environmental laws, and a concern for the local culture are flaunted in pursuit of money.
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I realized that you didn't have to make self-deprecating remarks or turn yourself into the butt of some unspoken joke. I also discovered that being big didn't deter possible suitors.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.
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The 'Vanity Fair' article was interesting to do because it was the first time I ever really had the opportunity to be absolutely truthful with a reporter about every aspect of my life.
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There are certain things women are better at than men.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
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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 love doing serious movies for adults.
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Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.
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Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.
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My buddy tells me a lot of interesting stories about what goes on in prison - it just makes my head spin about what they deal with on a day-to-day basis.
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The one product I can't live without is my mascara. I'm addicted to long eyelashes and think girls just look so pretty with long lashes!
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He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments.
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The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
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You know government needs a haircut. If we keep their spending down, that's more money in your pocket.
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I have wanted to run my own business since my time at Clitheroe grammar school. I remember thinking if I could get a penny from everyone in Britain, I would earn £208,000 a year.
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Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.
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I have heard over and over again that the drilling business is a dangerous business, and death is an expected part of the game, but I've also heard of the way that safety violations, human and environmental laws, and a concern for the local culture are flaunted in pursuit of money.
