Alexandra Kosteniuk Quotes
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
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I believe in forgiveness.
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The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.
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Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?
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I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.
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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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Would it be a surprise if entrepreneurs recoil at the thought of consciously courting any person who has more power and money than they have?
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Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.
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Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.
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I feel like we are reintroducing historical figures, with the explorer Marco Polo and the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, the ruler of the Mongol empire, the trading place that everybody wanted to get involved in.
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One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.
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Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.
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Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.
