Alexi Zentner Quotes
Ezekiel Boone's books, starting with 'The Hatching' series, are meant to be big, sprawling, smart, entertaining books that are fun above all else; the literary novels written under my real name, Alexi Zentner, are certainly a little more quiet.
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I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.
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It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.
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All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
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I learned to hide aspects of my personality. Playing with girls was fine, for example, but playing with their Barbies was something I could do only behind closed doors.
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The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.
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While I'm writing YA, I can't read YA, and the same with adult. I usually only listen to music while I'm writing YA.
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Self-loathing doesn't keep me from being happy. But that doesn't mean I don't struggle.
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Ezekiel Boone's books, starting with 'The Hatching' series, are meant to be big, sprawling, smart, entertaining books that are fun above all else; the literary novels written under my real name, Alexi Zentner, are certainly a little more quiet.
