Alexandra Maria Lara Quotes
I had already been one of the uncool students in my class and had few friends. But once you could see me on the TV, I was even more uncool.
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I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless hours at different studios, so far apart. Even on your own lot, relationships were formal and often competitive.
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work.
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Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.
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I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.
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Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.
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Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans.
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Sadly, half of marriages end in divorce. Half of my girl friends and male friends have been through one, and their kids are doing great. There's no shame around it - unless you want to project that on to yourself - but certainly there's no longer cultural shame. Everyone is walking through it.
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Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.
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Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.
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My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
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I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.
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My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.
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If there's a party and they won't let my friends in, I'd leave. No question.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
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The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!
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My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.
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I don't have any friends from my childhood because I didn't stay at one school for very long.
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I reckon there could be an entire 'It'll Be Alright On The Night' programme dedicated to me on 'The Chase.'
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There are no enemies in science, professor. Only phenomena to study.
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I grew up watching MTV, when Journey was huge, when Pat Benatar had 'Love Is a Battlefield,' and my friends and I used to cut school to watch this woman in the video. We loved Pat Benatar.
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I had already been one of the uncool students in my class and had few friends. But once you could see me on the TV, I was even more uncool.
