Alexandra Adornetto Quotes

Childhood is just this amazing place, and in my books, I was trying to express my concern about childhood being eroded. You have kids' TV programs being interrupted by terrorist attacks, and kids are exposed to so much these days.

Alexandra Adornetto

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ChildhoodAmazingTryingYouPlace

My life is the greatest life in the world. The greatest life in the world!

Jimmy Savile

LifeWorldMy LifeGreatest

I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.

Joan Collins

HappyFeelNewNowHereLike

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

Jessamyn West

JusticeTerribleNecessaryThing

I've always written about people who have very abstracted in a certain way. I write about scientists and artists and musicians. I write about people who live in their heads who are very obsessed about a certain set of details in the physical world.

Andrea Barrett

LivePeopleWorldDetailsMusicians

One of the big problems we had during the financial crisis was the intermingling of banks and holding companies and complex securities.

Steve Mnuchin

ProblemsFinancialCrisisBigBanks

I've been very proud of a lot of the work I've done in New Orleans.

Steve Scalise

WorkProudNewDoneNew OrleansLot

Jewish history turns out not to be an either/or story - as in, either pure Judaism detached from its surroundings or else assimilation - but rather, for the vast majority, the adventure of living in between.

Simon Schama

HistoryAdventureStoryLivingOut

There's no way I could ring up a company that was lending me a red-carpet dress and say, 'Do you have it in a 10?' Because all the press samples are an 8 - I would say a 'small 8.'

Romola Garai

DressMeSmallYouSayWay

Everything I have ever written about has been about what's going on inside of us.

Judith Viorst

InsideEverythingUsGoingBeen

I am not the paraplegic seated permanently in his chair or the able-bodied person on her feet. Identity for a hemiplegic is a shifty thing.

Joshua Prager

I AmIdentityFeetChairPersonHer

All I can do is keep my nose down and shoot the scene, shoot the scene, make it funny, make it funny, make it funny.

Jay Chandrasekhar

FunnyDownI CanNoseShootKeep

Elected office holds more perks than Elvis' nightstand.

Dennis Miller

MoreOfficeThanPerksElected

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