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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As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
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We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.
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You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.
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When I was a struggling actor, I worked for a party company. One of my friends from school was working for an advertising agency, and I turned up to one of his company's parties dressed as an alien to collect tickets on the door.
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While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.
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Power, as in the power structure, is why we are still using gas in cars.
