Alexis Ohanian Quotes
If I can accomplish anything in the next however-many years, it is this: To help a generation realize, or to think of themselves, not just as consumers but also creators.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I'm a 'Blackadder' girl.
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Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
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There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
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Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island.
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I just want to portray a very honest character that displays traits that people can truly relate to and can help them - the audience and myself because I learn from the characters as well - help them see themselves in a perspective that is outside of what they know already, and grow from that experience.
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One of my earliest recollections is being woken up at some ungodly hour in the morning by my parents and sat in front of the fairly new black and white television, watching a grainy image of a man in a white suit climbing down a ladder. It was the first moon landing, and I became a sort of spaceman, as many kids were.
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You can throw a novel into focus with one overheard line.
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If I can accomplish anything in the next however-many years, it is this: To help a generation realize, or to think of themselves, not just as consumers but also creators.
