Alexis Knapp Quotes
There's so much more to me as a human being than just my appearance, and I want to integrate that into my work.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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If we can provide even a few months of early warning for just one pandemic, the benefits will outweigh all the time and energy we're devoting. Imagine preventing health crises, not just responding to them.
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Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.
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Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'
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I watched westerns when I was a kid, like everybody else, but I wasn't a total nerd or geek about it. I kind of fell in love with westerns heavily when I started watching Sergio Leone's westerns.
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I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.
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I just had a normal African childhood; we played football a lot, but it was always in the street and always without shoes. Boots were very expensive, and when there are seven in your family, and you say you want to buy a pair, your father wants to kill you.
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I adore the designer B. Michael's curve-flattering gowns, but there is nothing better than jeans with a crisp white shirt.
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Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.
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I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.
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Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.
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Teenage girls in television and film, in my experience, oftentimes are portrayed as either the sweet, innocent virgin or the super-sexy, experienced, town bicycle. There never seems to be an in-between. I think most girls are somewhere in between those two tropes.
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I wouldn't want to be Superman. Batman would be cool. But the one I've always wanted to play is the Joker. There is a maniacal and dangerous side to me.
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A dark unfathom'd tide Of interminable pride - A mystery, and a dream, Should my early life seem.
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I was gonna write songs, I was gonna be a star and a singer and I never thought of doing anything else.
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As an engineer, I tended to maintain my own equipment along with developing the processes for it.
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Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What they were like at school. What shoes they wear. Spend days - weeks, months - being them until they thicken up and start to breathe.
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The buyer, the prospect, the customer expects you to have knowledge of their stuff, not just your stuff.
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In my business - SAT tutoring - you get used to sighs. A client's mother frets over the sheer amount of work her daughter has to do to get her score up, until she reaches the resigned moment when she will sigh and observe that no one thought you could prepare for the SAT back when she took it - it was 'untutorable.'
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There's so much more to me as a human being than just my appearance, and I want to integrate that into my work.
