Alice James Quotes
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.
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I never called myself an urban artist, but that's what I was classed as, and I almost tried to live up to the name instead of who I really was.
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If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.
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Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the Independence of Russia.
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Everyone always gets a little irritated by imitators, but mostly I'm flattered. What if you never did anything anyone wanted to copy?
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It takes time to love someone properly, and in this business, you get very wary of people.
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I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.
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Speaking for myself, I spend a good ten minutes a day deciding whether or not to read the results of new surveys, and, once I have read them, a further five minutes deciding whether or not to take them seriously.
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Full of years, Sir Frank's body died. The diphtheria which carried him off caused him as much suffering as it would have done an ordinary man; dying was not eased by his unique gift. He slid out into the long darkness - but his consciousness continued unabated in eight other bodies.
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My gay audience has been with me from the beginning.
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Brandon's super important to us and what we decided was it was probably best for the team and for him to put him on IR instead of rushing him back.
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I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first.
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Don't fall in love with a bonobo, because it's gonna die.
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When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.
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We've figured out our roles: I wanted someone to take care of the male roles - the big stuff - and Laird [Hamilton] does that very well. I'm here to be the mom and make it better for him, and that's my choice.
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Don't get me started on critics.
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I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
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It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
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Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.
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Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.
