Alexandra Kerry Quotes
I didn't grow up in public life. I lived with my mother in Boston, not in Washington, DC, so I was somewhat sheltered from that.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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Faith is personal if it's to be real.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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Movies in general are more generic. If something sells just make more. That's Hollywood.
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They decided as part of my 75th birthday celebrations that I would be entitled to fly first class. I'll be honest, I'm not good at flying anymore. To my credit, I can stretch out on two coach seats.
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We were kids that didn't have any education. None of our parents were in the music business or even college graduates. We didn't have someone guiding us. We were just uneducated kids from the middle of nowhere that suddenly had a band going around the world.
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I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles.
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For us, there is no such thing as failure. You can't miss a deadline; you can't come up short on an assignment. You have to perform, period.
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I didn't grow up in public life. I lived with my mother in Boston, not in Washington, DC, so I was somewhat sheltered from that.
