Alexandra Roach Quotes
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Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of the superhero is something you can do. All those movies have led to a point where we can finally have 'Watchmen' with a Superman character who doesn't want to save the world and a Batman who has trouble in bed.
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'
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Salesmen always need something to sell.
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People fight today for the same fundamental reasons the Greek historian Thucydides identified nearly 2,500 years ago: fear, honor, and interest.
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Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling.
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One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.
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You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want to add to that.
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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Through the 'It's About Ability' campaign and with parents and other members of society, we have created a social family for children with disabilities.
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In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.
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In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development.
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The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
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I only come up with things when I am talking to myself, which I do constantly. The sidewalk and the subway are the best places for this. I speak at full volume and then laugh at myself if I like what I just said.
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Two key rules of Third World travel: 1. Never run out of whiskey. 2. Never run out of whiskey.
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It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.
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I've always wanted to perform on the London stage.
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We're going to have another rude awakening, a war or depression where people are going to have to value one another again and not value money and winning alone. On the political environment we now have a President who likes winning and money and he represents aspects of the spectacle we were alluding to, and yet he's my President and I am for anyone who is my President. I'm an American and yet it's the style thing. We’ll see what happens. He’d like to see things work well and trying to get us to that place as a country.
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Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!
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Judges can bring their own biases about sexuality in the courtroom, causing victims untold pain in the telling and retailing of their stories.
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I can't wait until I'm able to afford really posh bags.
