Alexandra Kleeman Quotes
These days, there are times when my academic thinking intervenes in my writing, but it's usually while I'm developing a project and not while I'm writing it.
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
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The demand for commodities is not the demand for labor.
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Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort.
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A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.
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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
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We've educated children to think that spontaneity is inappropriate. Children are willing to expose themselves to experiences. We aren't. Grownups always say they protect their children, but they're really protecting themselves. Besides, you can't protect children. They know everything.
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These days, there are times when my academic thinking intervenes in my writing, but it's usually while I'm developing a project and not while I'm writing it.
