Alexandra Fuller Quotes

Being a writer but also having been raised the way I was, I tend to turn to books for answers.

Alexandra Fuller

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• Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Interesting
  • Hair
  • Makeup

• It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as a freelance writer when I had to quit my job at the 'Herald Tribune' to stay home with my young daughter.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Good
  • Home
  • Job

• Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Good
  • Music
  • Good Music

• The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • You
  • Respect
  • White

• Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Up
  • World
  • Home

• I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Think
  • Option

• If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a machine that has consciousness. And if that happens, that is a road to planetary disaster because everything we've thought about ourselves, since the Bronze Age, the Bible, all of that will be gone.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Age
  • Brain
  • Road

• It's not like my old self – I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Character
  • Like
  • Old

• Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Comedy
  • Amazing
  • Movies

• It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like, you don't want to live there.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Live
  • Want
  • Know

• People can certainly take pride in the fact that there is a Jewish candidate for president who has received delegates and who has run a terrific campaign and still work hard to ensure we elect Hillary Clinton.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Work
  • Pride

• I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Mom
  • Working
  • Learned

• Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Generation

• I'm at the point age-wise where I've decided it's time to pass the baton to people who have several terms in front of them and have the energy and the excitement and the engagement that is necessary to carry it on.

  

  Dan Coats
  • People
  • Time
  • Age

• Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Know
  • Loss

• Personally, I don't wear fur.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Wear
  • Personally
  • Fur

• The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different things.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Different
  • Kid
  • Shy

• I'm not a supermodel. That's not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what's happening on the outside.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Important
  • Want

• It is, like the Mona Lisa, one of those masterpieces with which you will be outstandingly familiar long before you ever get to see it...it does not disappoint. It does not disappoint the first time you see it, nor the third time, nor even the 30th time...

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Time
  • Long

• Otherwise it was quiet-that eerie, not-quite-comforting quiet one finds in small towns before dawn.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Small
  • Comforting

• I've worked with a couple of female directors now, and I think that they're amazing. As good or better than guy directors.

  

  Alia Shawkat
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Amazing

• We have a unique opportunity to unite America, urban and rural, coastal and midwestern, red and blue, under the banner of a truly unifying national effort. We can start right now.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • America
  • Opportunity
  • Urban

• I really don't want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Important
  • Country
  • Education

• Being a writer but also having been raised the way I was, I tend to turn to books for answers.

  

  Alexandra Fuller