Alexandra Paul Quotes
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I always tell women that the fact that you're different and that you're noticed, because there are few of us in the tech industry, is something you can leverage as an advantage.
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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The world is too violent right now.
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In this business, you get an opportunity, and you pounce on it.
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It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.
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When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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It used to be that you had to come to Silicon Valley, walk up Sand Hill Road, network with individuals. That's now being completely changed and turned on its head by the whole ICO thing.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
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I grew up with three sisters, so I got used to being around them and all of their worries about fashion and what they are wearing.
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Moving to India was challenging being a foreigner. I don't have any family here. I didn't have anyone to guide me. But I never felt for a second that I am not welcome here.
Jacqueline Fernandez -
I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman writer' as anti-feminist. I wrote an essay about this as far back as 1977, at the height of the neo-feminist movement.
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I wanted to give people a taste of my own music through the sound and style of my covers.
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Style-wise, dos Santos is going to be an excellent fight for me - striker against striker. With my experience, I should have the upper hand.
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I'm very out of style... or I should say I have my own style.
