Art Alexakis Quotes
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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I often felt that I didn't train and race enough team sprint to get it right. You need to know that you've got a place to have that continuity of results. Am I in? Am I out of this one? That's tough.
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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I don't think about fights that didn't happen.
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When I was young, I'd fight everyone who insisted I'd be an actress. I'd say, 'No way. I'm going to be a veterinarian. I'm going to work at Wetzel's Pretzels.'
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I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as characters. I made a very badly put-together costume because I felt this desire to dress up.
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I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.
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You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
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Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.
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Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.
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After school, I got a job in a shop in Hollywood and shared an apartment with a friend. I promptly lost my job and got evicted from my apartment, and that happened several times.
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I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don't wake up before - the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.
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Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That's not what real life is about.
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When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for inspiration.
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There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.
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Congress has turned its back on America's working families. There are Teamster families in every congressional district in America, and those families vote. Those who would oppose these families have done so at their own political peril.
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Ultimately, it is in fun. It is supposed to be highly entertaining.
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I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.
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To be loved is the birthright of every mewling babe, but, once grown, a man is not assured of such affection.
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As you get older, you realize you're not that cool. You also realize the people you called posers are just people like you.
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Lightning Bolt and Hella are two bands I listen to, and there's a lot of finger tapping going on there.
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As cool as I want my kids to be, they're just like any other kid. They don't love eggplant unless it is covered in cheese.
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About one or two songs per record is me doing a little bloodletting.
