Alexandra Roach Quotes
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If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.
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I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.
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Real golf is the 20 million people who play once a week or once a month.
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In 'Rangoon', I play an action star of the 1940s.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.
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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
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The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.
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Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.
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I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there's a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.
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People always ask why I stay in the online space versus going to TV or film, like most people would do, and the answer is that there's opportunity for innovation online - not only innovation in storytelling, but also innovation in how you interact with your audience and that is very fulfilling to me personally.
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I knew how touring was for 10 years, but it's completely different now that things are popping off.
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I have a cat and a dog. They don't really get along, but I think they get along when no one is looking.
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When I wrote 'Noughts and Crosses', I was halfway through it when I realised this was very like 'Romeo and Juliet'... as long as you make it your own, and put your own spin on it, I think it's brilliant to use other great work to find your own voice.
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'The Islamic people, the Arabs, were the ones who captured Africans, put them in slavery, and sent them to America as slaves. Why would the people in America want to embrace the religion of slavers.'
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The end of the Republic has never looked better.
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'Long ago we parted,' said the slight, still man of the Fiia. 'Longer ago we were one. What we are not, they are. What we are, they are not. Think of the sunlight and the grass and the trees that bear fruit, Semley; think that not all roads that lead down lead up as well.'
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Once you get it into your head that somebody is controlling events, you can interpret everything in that light and find no reasonable certainty anywhere.
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The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.
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I have a horrible memory and I used to consider that a liability, but I've learned along the way that talking to people is really a beautiful thing.
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The young Obama's lack of playing time on the high school basketball team was due more to his ability than the coach's preference for white players.
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Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.
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Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.
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Hairpieces are brilliant for adding volume.
