Alexis Denisof Quotes
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.
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I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
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Grit can't be measured on pop quizzes, but it can often predict long-term success more than mere intelligence.
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I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
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Yet the whole structure of the common law is an obvious denial of this theory; it stands as a monument slowly raised, like a coral reef, from the minute accretions of past individuals, of whom each built upon the relics which his predecessors left, and in his turn left a foundation upon which his successors might work.
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By forcing us to look closely at our requests, prayer purifies us.
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The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the bees that filled the comb with honey, the ants that laid up stores for a rainy day - these were among the first creators of civilization. It was they....who taught our ancestors the art of providing for tomorrow out of the surplus of today, or of preparing for winter in summer's time of plenty.
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You learn a lot about a person when you work together.
