Alexis Bledel Quotes
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
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The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
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Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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You can have the biggest markets in the world, but if the game isn't exciting, compelling, and competitive, it's not going to generate a lot of interest.
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We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.
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After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
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I feel like with 'Chuck,' because it was a comedy-based show, it was more cartoon-ish. It was just more playful. We had a lot more fun with it. There was a lot of silliness in there. There were serious moments, as well, and there was a lot of heart in that show, but its baseline was comedy.
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Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
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I am not only the person who wrote and sold a novel while raising a houseful of biological and foster children; I am also the person who wrote a horrific young adult novel that never sold and gave up on a foster child I couldn't handle - an experience that still haunts me.
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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
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There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.
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It's nice to know there are some things in early 21st-century post-industrial culture that don't change very fast. I am one of those.
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Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.
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As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.
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If we spend the time we waste in sighing for the perfect golden fruit in fulfilling the conditions of its growth, happiness will come, must come. It is guaranteed in the very laws of the universe. If it involves some chastening and renunciation, well, the fruit will be all the sweeter for this touch of holiness.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal.
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Sylvia Plath wasn't scared of exploring the darker side of her psyche.
