Alexis Bledel Quotes
I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job.
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I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
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I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.
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I'm a huge gamer. I'm very excited, and the idea of the Rift was as a headset that was designed around the specific uses of VR gaming. But I'm excited about a lot of stuff that's outside of it, because I was a VR enthusiast. I want VR to be the thing that we all live in, that we all use for everything, not just games.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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The starting point of all achievement is desire.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined.
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I'm not motivated by having the largest revenue base - you get that as an outcome. If we do our job well, we will be appropriately rewarded.
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Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?
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Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The Child Garden' is exquisite and utterly beguiling. Mervyn Peake's 'Gormenghast' trilogy is an astonishing piece of multi-faceted storytelling. So quality of writing does not condemn the genre.
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Every time something is taken away, you're forced to take a step back and realize how much that thing means to you. You don't realize what you've got until it's gone.
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I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job.
