Eddie Alvarez Quotes
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I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.
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I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.
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As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with executive experience would be ideal.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.
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I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.
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My goal isn't to shock.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.
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It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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Because of my job, I get a lot of opportunity to grab a few days here and there in many cool cities for press commitments, magazine shoots and premieres - Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, Paris, Stockholm, New York, Berlin. I always try to get to a gallery or museum if there's time.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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I'm surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don't have any problem telling me I'm acting like an idiot or I'm not that funny.
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I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer.
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I'd like to run a professional football team. I'd love to run the USTA, be the sports editor of the 'New York Times.'
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What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.
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I think sports is a quest to find out what really is - not what perceptions are.
