Alexandra Kleeman Quotes

You have to find some way of engaging with the world around you, however it's constituted. The engagement is necessarily going to be flawed. But if you do it on your own terms, you'll be able to extract some pleasure from the world. It might even make you really happy sometimes.

Alexandra Kleeman

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• When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Space

• For the first time, entrepreneurs can monetize their own open-source and peer-to-peer network. They can crowdfund and raise money from people across the world on the Internet in crypto-currency.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Race
  • Autobiography

• I never was happy with the job I did in 'Ed Wood.'

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Job
  • Happy
  • Wood

• I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • World
  • Love
  • Trees

• Bitcoin and the block chain enables a whole new way to incentivize and transact, so change the world with this new tool. Create and build! Surprise us with an idea we have never seen before.

  

  Adam Draper
  • World
  • Change
  • Surprise

• I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • World
  • Live
  • Learn

• There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • World
  • American
  • Chinese

• In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • World
  • School

• I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • World
  • Love
  • English

• The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • World
  • Just
  • Camera

• There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • World
  • Energy
  • Kind

• I like Ned Leeds. I love the character so much. He's a very new character in the MCU. I think he's a very fresh take on people in the superhero world. Some superheroes crack under pressure, and Ned Leeds, who is not a superhero, doesn't.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • People
  • World
  • Love

• When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • World
  • Game
  • Baseball

• I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.

  

  AJ McLean
  • World
  • God
  • Thinking

• I love holidaying with the kids after working hard, it is amazing.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Amazing

• A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • World
  • Kind
  • Story

• I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • World
  • School

• I'd been carrying my Ruger .41 Magnum so many days that I had almost forgotten it was there. This was the kind of world we now lived in.

  

  James Howard Kunstler
  • World

• We agree in principle. That's clear. But take The opposing law and make a peristyle, And from the peristyle project a masque Beyond the planets. Thus, our bawdiness, Unpurged by epitaph, indulged at last, Is equally converted into palms, Squiggling like saxophones. And palm for palm, Madame, we are where we began.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Law

• Because you know how you say I've got to really get down and really do some training and then of course, you never do or you do it for a couple of weeks and slough it back off again but I'm being forced to do something that I really want to do and I loved it.

  

  David Carradine
  • Couple
  • Training

• I am one, my liege, Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incensed that I am reckless what I do to spite the world.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Blow
  • Spite

• I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch.

  

  Bob Woodward
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Independent

• You have to find some way of engaging with the world around you, however it's constituted. The engagement is necessarily going to be flawed. But if you do it on your own terms, you'll be able to extract some pleasure from the world. It might even make you really happy sometimes.

  

  Alexandra Kleeman
  • World
  • Happy
  • Engagement