Alexandra Kleeman Quotes
We're living at this funny time, where we're all urged to express ourselves as unique individuals, but on the other hand, we share a limited set of tools for doing that. It's easy to feel like nothing more than the sum of your consumer choices.
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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My father is an amazing person.
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In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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I am a journalist.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade schools, high schools every 6 months to a year - depending on the breaks.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.
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I also found being called Sir rather silly.
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Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don't take many vacations. Everything just gets put on the back burner because of my training. I miss out on a lot of weddings and family functions. But at the end of the day, I'm sitting here as a world champion, and it feels pretty good.
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After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.
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Adult Swim has cornered this really cool market, especially for comedy shows.
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I have won many trophies in my time, but nothing will ever top helping win the battle for peace in my country.
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I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading.
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The United States, which would live on Christian principles with all of the peoples of the world, cannot omit a fair deal for its own Indian citizens.
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Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on.
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We're living at this funny time, where we're all urged to express ourselves as unique individuals, but on the other hand, we share a limited set of tools for doing that. It's easy to feel like nothing more than the sum of your consumer choices.
