Alice James Quotes
The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.
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So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.
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I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
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To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.
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I grew up in Chelsea on 22nd Street... I am really a native New Yorker.
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I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.
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For this will to deceive that is in things luminous may manifest itself likewise in retrospect and so by sleight of some fixed part of a journey already accomplished may also post men to fraudulent destinies.
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Who knows but I shall grow reasonable at last, descend from my ideal heaven to the real earth, marry, and - Oh Plato! - make a pudding?
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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?
