Alex Quotes

That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.

In the bush, trust no one you don't know.

The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling.

Most of the things that are asked of me as a representative black person, would suggest never are we equal Americans.

Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.

I get interviewed a lot, and I found myself listening to what the interviewer is asking me, I'm analyzing what I'm being asked more than my response.

I am really quite proud of most of the people I " know who have "made it," who do things to help people.

You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.

I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.

It's an hour during the week where you can just slow down.

But then, as far as I know, as far as I've studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind.

People outside the documentary world don't realize how time-consuming making a documentary film is there is a lot of responsibility, and in order to make something good you need time.

You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.

You must have a clear mental picture of the correct thing before you can do it successfully.

As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let all of these slaughters continue without doing anything.

I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed.

I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues.

We can no longer stand for the Security Council passing resolutions and then in effect heaving alongside and taking a vacation. We cannot leave it to the secretary general to go cap in hand.

The need to engage businesses and decision makers with customers can only increase in importance, and as it does, the market research industry must recognise that engagement is a facet of what we do.

No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.

It's fine to indulge yourself so long as you don't try and foist it on the rest of the world.

Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.

You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.

Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.

I find American football quite ridiculous generally. I don't understand it. It looks like a lot of guys dressed up as spacemen shouting at each other.

Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.

Music should be universal. My life perspective, my lifestyle - I'm not going to impose that on the people that listen to my music. That's kind of a perverse form of snobbery I like to reject.

If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them.

The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?

You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.

It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.

I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.

I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.

Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.

If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.

I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.

Why play a chord when you can play one note?

There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.

A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.

Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.

I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.

Im from Boston, and I get easily overwhelmed in New York, so I go to Boston and stay with my parents for a few months at a time to write, or edit, or just to cry.

My day-to-day local issues are rooted in an underlying fear of death.

What I like in comedies are really two things: stories that are character-driven and stories that are rooted in authenticity.

Relationships are possible, but are definitely not a road paved with roses.

As far as Love Dare for Parents goes, you can download the book. You can buy it at bookstores...We're really excited about it and believe that it's going to make significant impact for parents.

I think a lot of actors need validation. If you see truly amazing actors perform, they expose themselves to such an incredible degree. You can really see their pain.

The truth is, I'm not a coper. I hate stress. I might appear calm externally but internally it's all going on.

If you are the one who is dumped, then you feel like your life is over.

Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it is.