Alexi Zentner Quotes
If I think of a reader while I am writing, the only reader who really matters for me is my wife. It's most important to me that she likes what I write.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.
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The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
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Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
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In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
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Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.
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Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.
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Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.
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Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons of equal achievements who get none. When one man gets a place in the sun, the others are put in a denser shade. From the point of view of the whole group there's no gain whatsoever, and perhaps a loss.
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Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn't sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight. It didn't matter.
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For five thousand infantry would now cross the Kaitna at a place where men said the river was uncrossable, then fight an enemy horde at least ten times their number. ... The enemy had stolen a march, the redcoats had journeyed all night and were bone tired, but Wellesley would have his battle.
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Having a great idea is important. But having a great team is also important.
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If I think of a reader while I am writing, the only reader who really matters for me is my wife. It's most important to me that she likes what I write.
