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Alafair Burke Quotes

I find myself more and more behind these days. You have to be really diligent. I don't have kids, which helps. I'm always working on something, whether a book, or a law review article that no one will ever read, or teaching. It pretty much means I work a lot, but it's all stuff I love.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1969

Topics

Work Love Myself Law Book You

I know it affected me when I saw certain actors growing up. I had a drama teacher that would take us to see plays in New York, and it was seeing James Earl Jones and Raul Julia - I mean, this guy comes from the place my mother comes from. He's doing Shakespeare right now, and it doesn't seem to matter that he has an accent.

Mother Teacher New York Growing Up

As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, young offender's units, youth clubs and housing estates.

Community People Youth Young Actor

I think there's an interesting contradiction of having a young face and an old soul. There's something funny about it, and it also allows you to reinvent being old.

Funny Soul Face Think Interesting

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

Freedom Words People Think Will Way

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

Understand Condemn Tendency

To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.

Stephen Hawking

Work Alone Challenge Brain Thinking

Fear has governed my life, if I think about it.

Life Fear Think My Life I Think

Hopefully kids will look at me and see that your dreams can come true.

Dreams Your Dreams Me Look True See

I sort of go with the flow of what's happening on the set.

Go Flow Set Happening Sort

Not winning a title gives fuel to sportswriters and talking heads who question an athlete's true value.

Value Winning Talking Athlete True

You get 12 years of childhood, give or take.

Colin Trevorrow

Childhood You Years Take Give Get

I would hope to have some of the same audience that Oprah has earned. And I would love to earn that, as well.

Love Hope Same Earn Audience Earned

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