Alice James Quotes
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
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Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.
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I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.
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Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.
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We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.
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Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important.
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The minute I put my leg on a horse and say, 'Come on, let's go,' I absolutely believe that the horse and I can do it and that we will do it. And I am always shocked when we actually don't do it. If the analytical mind ever overrode that optimist in me, I'd be in some serious trouble.
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I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.
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Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.
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I believe that God wants us to show respect.
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I believe a true Hindu in India could never have endorsed the killing of the Mahatma.
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Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?
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I believe in tackling things you're afraid of.
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I'd just like to think that there's some kind of underworld where whoever's been lost at sea is there... I dunno, there probably isn't, but I'd like to believe there is.
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I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
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I try to make sense of things. Which is why, I guess, I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be.
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Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.
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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
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I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
