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 not living that matters, but living rightly.
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The externals are simply so many props; everything we need is within us.
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Nowadays you don't get to see composition in a movie because nobody ever keeps the camera still long enough to see it. Actors don't have the thrill and the power of working with space.
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I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
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When we first filmed 'Gilmore Girls,' I didn't know it would build such a cult following.
