Alexandra Paul Quotes
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Always remember: My general theme is 'There is no message.' There never has been. Stop trying to find the message or the meaning in everything. That's. My. Theme.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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I'm a political conservative.
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Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.
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I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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We condemn any kind of abuse of Muslim women or women anywhere in the world.
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My children are my life. They're so spectacular.
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The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town.
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I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.
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Trump is a real estate guy who sucks up to power to get buildings built.
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When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.
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Ideologies are too seductive anyway. It does a man good to see things from a different point of view.
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Power, as in the power structure, is why we are still using gas in cars.
