Alex Quotes

I love playing strong feisty women, I really do, but if you were to ask my husband he'd probably say that I'm very insecure. And actually incredibly malleable, which isn't necessarily a good thing.

Music is about your feelings.

Art can be a medium for people to discover universal spirit, with imagery not isolated to one particular wisdom path, but pointing to the underlying truth that they all transmit.

I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of person.

Racism and hatred are synonymous.

I think if you live in London, it's such a cosmopolitan city, nobody even notices different-race relationships. I assumed it would be even more liberal in the States, and it's totally the opposite.

I guess anytime you are mentioned with Hank Aaron, it is the ultimate compliment, not only as a hitter, but obviously, the great ballplayer that he was.

Leadership is a role you have to earn in order to be effective.

I'm not impulsive at all - except about buying clothes. That's my biggest weakness.

I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.

The older I get, the more interesting I find lawyers and accountants.

If he's walking around with the title, whose right and whose wrong? He's awesome. And I'm his protege, so what does that make me? That makes me awesome as well.

Please phrase your answer in the form of a question.

Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind of music, to sing that volatility.

I just try to be as versatile as life is and try and express that in the fight.

I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted.

The more prose I wrote, the more the pendulum swung back toward the middle, merging some poetic sensibilities with the more fundamental elements of creative prose.

Well, we're all going to die, so mortality is a part of writing and life.

Being deeply aware of fragility and ecstasy seems to me an essential part of being alive and living fully - and there's no way for me to separate this from my poems.

I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have.

I did everything - I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas.

There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.

Never give in or give up easily on a cause.

My life is full, and I love it. Acting is the frosting on the cake for me.

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

You are responsible to each other because when you win a game of football, you only need eight players to perform well.

Never try to fit a target audience. Write what is true to the characters in their settings and the audience will find you.

The most important thing in a game like that is to win it.

You can always have it better. If you try... [This is the right attitude:] Never to feel [completely] satisfied, always to want to do something better!

What makes 'good tape'? That is the question that has consumed my life for the past 20 years, and I have an answer for you

Actually, I was lucky enough; I was a heavyweight, so making weight for me was never that much of a problem in high school. Now, it would just be near impossible, because I'm a little heavier.

Once you shake hands with the devil, you have to accept they are in control.

But there is always that unpredictability about a derby match and that's what it was today.

You only get a second to score a goal in football. In Wolves' case it was 20 seconds

When you're comfortable, you're not necessarily inclined to care about things that are contributing to your comfort. It's difficult.

Everywhere I go, there are all these Big Star freaks, and they’re nice little guys who are usually in college, and they’re kind of lonely and misunderstood, learning to play guitar.

Fame has a lot of baggage to carry around. I wouldn't want to be like Bruce Springsteen. I don't need that much money and wouldn't want to have 20 bodyguards following me.

There are only two excuses you can use for missing rugby training - death and docking!

As long as there are games to play its not over

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

Parents should never have to bury their own children.

Male sexual response is far brisker and more automatic. It is triggered easily by things - like putting a quarter in a vending machine.

I go gladly to my wife and boy, and I leave this world at peace with every one in it and at peace with God.

We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.

Everyone can use a little beauty.

Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end the only thing that counts is what you can make people believe.

the church should just stay out of people's pants.

She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.

The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship.

To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.