Alexis Bledel Quotes
I'm not a fan of watching myself on TV - it's just not relaxing. It's like if you hear your voice on a recording: it doesn't sound the same as when it comes out of your mouth.
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As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.
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I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them.
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I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.
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I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.
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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.
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I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.
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The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.
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I need to listen to chill music when I'm driving. It prevents road rage.
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I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?
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Even though I'm not a competitive athlete, I have to still maintain things and try to keep myself fit because I am at that age where I need to make sure to get those regular checkups and make sure everything is in tact.
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So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today.
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A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.
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To me, spirituality means 'no matter what.' One stays on the path, one commits to love, one does ones work; one follows one's dream; one shares, tries not to judge, no matter what.
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I encourage people who don't believe in evolution to look for horses in Jurassic Solenhofen limestone.
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It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience.
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I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents' No. 1 priority is the kids' education.
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Was ever poet so trusted before?
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In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.
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In my own country, many of the movies in recent years express our innate fears about what awaits us. They are apocalyptic visions that leave only a few people on earth-whole cities surviving under domes because we have depleted our natural resources. And often in these movies, for reasons that I question, we have space aliens who are always blowing up Washington, D.C., and the White House.
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My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix.
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I was once doing an improv show and it was my turn to jump on stage and I fell on my face. It's a really terrible way to start a show.
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When my mom passed, it hit us hard. She was the glue that held our family together.
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People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live.
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I'm not a fan of watching myself on TV - it's just not relaxing. It's like if you hear your voice on a recording: it doesn't sound the same as when it comes out of your mouth.
