Alex Quotes

David impresses by his example on the field. He never stops running, he plays with supreme confidence, he always tries his hardest and he scores important goals. (on David Beckham)

Everyone remembers Stuart Pearce as a determined, aggressive player, who played with great heart and enthusiasm that gave him a great career in the game.

It's a conflict of parallels.

He's a normal, likable, straightforward boy. (on David Beckham)

This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City.

You shouldn't miss someone who don't miss you, right?

Seem like a lot of people wear shoes they can't walk in.

Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.

I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.

Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides is a useful talent.

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.

Maybe you actually do need to face obstacles with someone to know that they're the one you'd sacrifice for.

A boy admiring a pretty girl. A rare thing to be certain. But love-true love-is something else.

Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and a longer time to revise, while others were the opposite.

The world's a fascinating place right now.

The writing, acting and the directing all complement each other and make each other better. It's one of those amazing instances where everything seems to come together.

One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good idea.

I carry a lot of scars. I like the way that sounds. I carry a LOT of scars.

The key relationship for writers in film is producers, because those are the first two people involved and the ones who work on it intensely in a private way without the big machinery of film.

I think everything I write is from an atheist perspective. I mean, it's partly from an atheist perspective because I'm an atheist, and I'm just not really interested in religious-based questions.

I can kid people, including myself, into believing that something on the page will work. But when you film it, you just think, "Oh ...".

Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.

I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds.

It's easy to get armchair analysts to talk, but to get people on the inside to talk is very, very hard.

The stuff about film being a collaborative medium is no joke.

I think many articles in the New Yorker have a strong point of view, but they are so rigorously fact-checked. I wouldn't call them objective, but they feel fair.

As the power of governments wanes, corporations become ever more powerful. Sometimes they do things that aren't so good. We should pay attention.

You can't expect the institution to learn, if it doesn't accept any sense of justice.

Bill Gates, who is the classic computer nerd, as opposed to Steve who is, like the coolest guy in the world. And who is really doing things to make the world a better place?

In many ways, I'm a big admirer still of Julian Assange. He had balls to do what he did and his motivations in terms of holding the powerful to account are tremendously inspiring to me.

I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission.

The funny thing about being Catholic, and I was raised Catholic, is that you identify with the Church, just as part of your character. Nevermind what you believe, it's just who you are.

In the case of the Catholic Church, it's hard to understand how they so willfully sacrifice the children.

Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide.

The Church must be all-powerful. You discover these horrors within institutions because predators find ways of hiding in plain sight.

The internet connects us all and provides this fabulous fact-checking mechanism, and yet at the same time, the power of lies is conveyed much more efficiently now because they're accepted so fast.

What a terrible world it would be if we only did films that were poster boards for political causes.

Long ago I had a professor who told me, 'Embrace the contradictions.' I think that is what is most interesting about people like Jobs.

If people are portrayed as monsters, we become disconnected from them, and to me that is not remotely interesting.

You can certainly shorten things and tighten things, we tightened up Jon's walk to Mance Rayder's tent. That was something that got tightened up a little bit because I had shot the hell out of that.

The whole mythology of Westeros begins with the struggle between the Children of the Forest and different warring factions before the first men arrive.

When you finish writing the scripts they have time to take a breath and think about everything. There's just a little more time to think. Network does not allow for that.

It's how we spend ourselves - not our money - that makes us rich.

I will always support legalization of the entheogens, which are, without a doubt, the most important and the most grossly misunderstood medicines on earth.

It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to the North Magnetic Pole and spending all of my money.

History is written by winners.

Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte.

I don't know anywhere in the world where there is not racism against somebody.

Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. “Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. “That is the way of the world.