Alexis Ohanian Quotes
Word of mouth now has a unprecedented influence because it spreads so far and so fast.
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As far as 'Windup Girl' becoming a hit - none of us expected that. 'Night Shade' was just hoping not to lose their shirts, and I had grown up hearing from everyone that science fiction didn't sell, so all of our expectations were very low.
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If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.
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A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
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My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
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Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.
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I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.
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We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
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I want to end up like Judi Dench. I want to have nice consistent work, doing lovely things, no matter how big or small they might be. I'd like to turn into a wise old thing.
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I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.
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When I went to record my first album, which should have been a punk album, there was a synthesiser in the control room. I'd never seen one before but they let me have a go on it and I loved it to bits.
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According to my grandmother, I started singing as soon as I began talking. I always wanted to be an entertainer. I knew that from the start.
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It's kind of cool to have the whole country at your back. Not just a city, but the whole country is rooting for you.
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Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
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Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.
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The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
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Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.
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To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it, seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph, mere stops.
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The sun gives spirit and life to plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.
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I'm lucky because I had blonde hair for a while for this TV show I was doing – they had me dye my hair blonde – and every audition I was going out for was bleach blonde. The mean girl, the pretty girlfriend, and the dumb cheerleader.
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I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.
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Over 20 years, I chipped away at a career little by little. I worked churches, off-Broadway, off-off-Broadway. I began being recognized by my peers by casting directors, actors, producers.
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I don't think things like trust should just be handed out. You have to earn that.
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Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert,
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Word of mouth now has a unprecedented influence because it spreads so far and so fast.
