Alexandra Fuller Quotes

I grew up in southern Africa but was born in England, so my family was afflicted with the stiff upper lip of the British. When coupled with the violence we saw as children, that can be a fatal combination. Fortunately, I have an outlet for trauma in my writing.

Alexandra Fuller

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There are some harsh realities about this business, and they've been beaten into my psyche. But I'm more of an optimist than a pessimist.

Matt Lauer

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Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

John Ruskin

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I feel that if you can play on the streets or in a comedy club, then in a theatre it's a doddle because you've got an audience.

Simon McBurney

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During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned.

Martin Ryle

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We did such a great job of creating the interstate highway system in Oklahoma City that we don't have traffic congestion. You can actually get a speeding ticket during rush hour in the city. That's how great our traffic flows.

Mick Cornett

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My family is vital to me - just the sense of being surrounded by no pretension.

Mira Nair

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I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.

Lucille Ball

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For a global company, it is imperative to respect and honor local culture and weave that into the core company values rather than the other way around.

Julia Hartz

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What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.

Judy Blume

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You're working with the same people, and there's a lot of recognition. I like to do series best. I really do.

Dick Van Patten

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People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them.

Douglas Rushkoff

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I'm of those who believe that excesses in all matters are not a good idea, whether it's formation of bubbles, whether it's excess in the financial market, whether it's excess of inequality, it has to be watched, it has to be measured, and it has to be anticipated in terms of consequences.

Christine Lagarde

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