"The paradox of Reality is that no image……" — Shana Alexander
"The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye."
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22 Quotes by Shana Alexander
Shana Alexander has 22 quotes on this site.
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The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
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Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for…
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Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off…
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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the…
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This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain…
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Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where…
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Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.
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A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from…
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The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not…
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The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love.
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Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.
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More Compelling Quotes
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Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you…
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Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do…
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I was opposed to the U.S. involvement in Libya from the very start. President Obama has never made a compelling…
— Michele Bachmann
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Sarah Palin is a compelling political figure.
— Michele Bachmann
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I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.
— Kevin Bacon
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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of…
— Ansel Adams
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Ultimately, physical resemblance isn't as important as whether this person can bring this character to life in a way that's…
— Alan Ball
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
— Warren G. Bennis
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Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome…
— Les Brown
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An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of…
— Billie Burke
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The thing about a good podcast is you have to have a good host. If you don't have a compelling…
— Adam Carolla
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling…
— Harlan Coben
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