M.K. Alexander Quotes

Hidden in a long text, there are perhaps three lines that count.

I'm hesitant to do leading man character roles because I think they can be a little boring in terms of needing to be the everyman who navigates the amazing stuff around them.

All candidate moves should be identified at once and listed in one's head. This job cannot be done piecemeal, by first examining one move and then look at another.

It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists.

Experience and the constant analysis of the most varied positions builds up a store of knowledge in a player's mind enabling him often at a glance to assess this or that position.

My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory.

Once we have chosen the right formation in the centre we have created opportunities for our pieces and laid the foundation of subsequent victory.

He who shoots first laughs last.

Russia is like a dinosaur. A lot of time is needed for change to reach the tail from the head.

I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia.

I don't believe in democracy by bayonet.

It seems to be in fashion among Russian politicians to blame Berezovsky for everything. Soon they'll be holding him responsible for global warming, earthquakes and tsunamis.

It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.

I never planned to be rich, frankly speaking. I was more interested in being free, and doing things. And money helps. But otherwise I was never that interested in it.

Owning a newspaper does not confer immunity.

Facts are important to me, not emotions. I would caution against speculation.

Politkovskaya was a known critic of the administration. For this reason, one cannot rule out the possibility that someone would want to blame the government for the murder.

I am god...to the dislexic segment of the population.

The only way you can make a marriage work is as free, independent people. It needs to be based on the good feelings that you have for each other, not on need.

Not to fear a person with power--to profess, instead, one's love--is to deny that that person has power.

The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego with the body and its striving for pleasure and sexual fulfilment.

I don't really have time to watch too much, but I like 'Family Guy' and 'Entourage.' I'm also obsessed with the YouTube series 'Balls of Steel.' It's hilarious.

When I was doing a movie called 'The Seeker,' I was fortunate enough to be able to do a lot of my own stunts.

My suitcase must absolutely contain my iPod.

My parents know how passionate I've always been about acting. I convinced them this was something that I was going to put my heart and soul into.

I am always working out, whether I am on vacation or at home. When in La Jolla, I like to surf, play tennis, and golf - but surfing is definitely my favorite.

My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.

Ever since I've been a little kid I've always wanted superpowers, which is the coolest thing in the world.

I definitely want to study film. I'd like to have my own studio one day and just make a lot of movies.

I like movies that instill passion in the viewer. I like movies that can teach us about who we are as people.

I think it would be really awesome to be a rock star.

I think the universe is just so big that there has to be something else out there.

It's so much easier just to eat and work out than not eat and work out like crazy.

Jessica Alba. I have the biggest crush on her, I can't even tell you. I met her in Vancouver when she was filming 'Good Luck Chuck.

Modern reality TV sets up these competitive situations to show us real human nature.

It's a question I often ask myself: what would I do with me? And I don't know the answer. I don't know what I'd do, except run away.

Everything has been something before.

Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them under far too close a check.

Small things may be important to us; to be a sometime anything is sometimes something.

Lou knew that joy unshared was a halved emotion, just as sadness and loss, when borne alone, were often doubled.

Everybody has friends they dislike; people who they have slipped into relationships with, people they would not have chosen had they been more cautious, more circumspect.

Dogs are in on our human silliness; lions are not.

Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.

I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of those who have gone before me.

And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often the opposite of what one really wanted to do.

At night we are all strangers, even to ourselves.

When you allow people to do what they wish, then that is what they do. They stop doing the things they need to do.

Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.

I'm very interested in tea. I wouldn't mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industry.

It would be wonderful to have a guru; it would be like having a social worker or a personal trainer, not that people who had either of these necessarily appreciated the advice they received.