Alexis Bledel Quotes
When we first filmed 'Gilmore Girls,' I didn't know it would build such a cult following.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
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I think something happens to us biologically when we have children where the worry sets in immediately. And I don't think that ever goes away. But you have to fight your instincts to build walls up around your children or to want to shelter and protect them from everything.
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People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
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This hand is not very active always, because it was in this hand that I carried my books. My carrying hand was always my strongest. Now I think my other hand has developed more muscles from signing all those autographs.
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There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much.
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My uncle is so funny - Don Vito. He was always fat with the craziest voice. Dude, he barely speaks English; it's just full-blown jibber-jabber. It's so funny to watch on TV because you really need subtitles because you can't understand him.
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You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
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You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.
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I allowed Rick Santorum to express views and ideas that the American people never would have had expressed.
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All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.
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There is no denying the fact, that in all sudden emergencies a woman has ten times the presence of mind, or, to use the common expression, her wits more about her than a man.
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To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober.
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'Don't let yourself become cynical. Cynicism is a cheap emotion, a craven substitute for thought and action. Cynicism corrodes the will, dulls the conscience, blunts your sense of right and wrong... Stay alert to fine distinctions: become a pessimist like me.'
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In secret we metIn silence I grieve,That thy heart could forget,Thy spirit deceive.If I should meet theeAfter long years,How should I greet thee?With silence and tears.
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You look like a perfect fitFor a girl in need of a tourniquet.
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If you're caught acting, nobody believes you.
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Broadcasting through 9/11 together, like Katie Couric and I did, creates a bond.
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It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.
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We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.
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People in the performing arts have a lot of other skills they don't realize they can utilize, and part of what the Actors Fund program is there to do is wake their head up to realize there are other things they can do.
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Sit peacefully in a church and think of church history: witchburning perhaps, or child abuse, genocide, the amassing of disgusting wealth, the repression of women, inquisitions, castrating child choir singers, the denial of Santa Claus and the support of fascists in power.
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When we first filmed 'Gilmore Girls,' I didn't know it would build such a cult following.
