Alexandra Robbins Quotes

I tend to focus on young people and on giving a voice to groups of people who don't normally get their voices heard.

Alexandra Robbins

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My grandmother, who taught me how to cook, didn't know how to read.

Jill Lepore

MeKnowGrandmotherCookWhoRead

I think, at the end of the day, it comes down to authenticity and creating what you love.

Megan Nicole

LoveDayThinkEnd Of The DayEnd

I don't do a lot of guest shots on television.

John Larroquette

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I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

Max Beerbohm

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Wish I could, through my own financial prestidigitation, transform a dollar bill into two, or two million. It is an awesome and mysterious skill.

Michael Ian Black

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I think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never meet.

Michael Dirda

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A lot of television stuff is mean-spirited, and I think that's how political advertising got so mean-spirited, to where people are throwing things at the television set every time we have an election.

Stan Freberg

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There are Americans will find it difficult to believe that the Prime Minister can simply impose candidates on ridings, and can so efficiently move individuals out of private life and into the Cabinet with virtually no resort to the electorate.

Stockwell Day

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I grew up when the whole Motown thing was huge. The charts in those days were dominated by groups more than solo artists at one point.

Simon Cowell

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I come from a very blue-collar family, and a very hardworking family, and I think that my work ethic is maybe the thing that kept me on the straight and narrow.

Jason Priestley

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I myself saw the great works of Western civilization for the first time in my high school in Lithuania in bad black-and-white reproductions on miserable paper. That was, for many years, what art was for me. But from those miserable black-and-white reproductions, I got something, something unmistakable.

Jonas Mekas

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It's a prizefight. Get off the stool, take your beating, go back to your corner, rest, and take a beating again. Believe in your own talent. Marry well.

Bruce Paltrow

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