Alice Dellal Quotes
I like bags that are easy to wear and are pretty to look at. But I don't like them when they have no space and you can't put anything in them.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to help other people.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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Most people who end up being successful have good grades, but it's orthogonal - there's no extra information than if they put together a website and have bunch of fans who love coming and seeing what they're doing.
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Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.
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The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they need to effectively execute these projects.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
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When you subpoena one pastor, you subpoena every pastor.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed.
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Mine is one of the most beautiful professions in fashion: making others happy with an idea... I am happy because I did the job I dreamt of as a child.
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I never understood why women wanted equality in the workplace when in fact, that would be selling them short.
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Growing up, people would always say, 'You have such a pretty face.' It's kind of backhanded. That's the kind of things we have to stomach.
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I know that when you are experiencing failure, it's pretty damn painful. It is easy in retrospect to wax poetic about it. But in the moment, you don't think you will survive, let alone have the time to reflect on how valuable those lessons will be for you in the future.
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I like bags that are easy to wear and are pretty to look at. But I don't like them when they have no space and you can't put anything in them.
