Alexi Zentner Quotes
There is no simple answer for what it means to be Canadian. There are a thousand answers that come together. But part of that is that there is a national mythology.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
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I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.
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When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.
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I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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I love being in a courtroom.
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I'm very, very focused on my children. In fact, I'm very religious about having breakfast with them every morning, having dinner with them every evening, and spend all the weekends with them that I don't work. So as long as I'm not traveling, I'm always with them and I go to their soccer and tennis matches.
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Country fans are the most loyal in the world, but they know every song that you put out - not just the singles.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
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In America, we then made a commitment, particularly after World War II with the GI Bill, to massively expand our commitment to college education, and that meant we had more engineers and we had more scientists and that meant we had better technology, which meant that we were more productive and we could succeed in the global marketplace.
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I'm a believer in challenging myself and overcoming challenges by doing things I've never done before.
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I didn't want to write a pure fantasy novel, though I love those and grew up on J. R. R. Tolkien and Ursula LeGuin.
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You see women struggling to keep it all together while a loved one is in jail. But we don't hear about them or their struggles in a way that resonates with others. Their stories are so compelling. It's as if they are in their own little world and no one else sees them.
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I like to be an idea person. I like to pull different people together and find new talent.
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There is no simple answer for what it means to be Canadian. There are a thousand answers that come together. But part of that is that there is a national mythology.
