Alexandra Fuller Quotes
The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.
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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
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People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.
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I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
The Word of God is so much broader than people are giving it credit for. Look at Proverbs, a book written on how to live.
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For us, an album is the highest art form - an album or a really incredible film. We're musicians, not filmmakers, so this is what we can do.
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The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.
