In Africa, we filled up all available time busily doing not much, and then we wasted the rest.
ALEXANDRA FULLER In southern and central Africa, tragedy roared at us, and we roared back. We shared dramas publicly,...
ALEXANDRA FULLER Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh...
ALEXANDRA FULLER I don't know if it's just my age or the climate or the high altitude or some of those old-co...
ALEXANDRA FULLER In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no...
ALEXANDRA FULLER Yes, as an oppressed people, American Indians have this epic burden, but first and foremost, they...
ALEXANDRA FULLER It's probably cliche to say this, but in my experience, people are far more alike than they are ...
ALEXANDRA FULLER The most basic human impulse is toward entropy and laziness. The less we have to do to grow spiritua...
ALEXANDRA FULLER I think that being raised the way I was, where everything was so uncompromising, where, you know, we...
ALEXANDRA FULLER You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.
ALEXANDRA FULLER Retaining culture takes effort and persistence and discipline. It's a commitment, not a flag. Yo...
ALEXANDRA FULLER It seems very clear to me that we, in the West, cannot afford to continue assuming propriety over th...
ALEXANDRA FULLER In retrospect, I have come to recognise just how astounding my mother was during our childhood. She ...
ALEXANDRA FULLER In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real f...
ALEXANDRA FULLER I'm a working writer; this is my job. So it matters to me that it's good. I sweat over every...
ALEXANDRA FULLER I have heard over and over again that the drilling business is a dangerous business, and death is an...
ALEXANDRA FULLER I remember Karoi as a very hot, flat place, but in reality, it is all hills. We just lived next to a...
ALEXANDRA FULLER I think for writers, I think it's really important to court eviction from your tribe: to expose ...
ALEXANDRA FULLER I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really ...
ALEXANDRA FULLER Oh, I don't keep a journal. How you remember an incident is dictated by your emotional state at ...
ALEXANDRA FULLER Being a white southern African who saw the transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, the sense of being ...
ALEXANDRA FULLER I adore my family. I don't love their politics. I think they're wonderful parents. They were...
ALEXANDRA FULLER I think there's a big difference between loving someone out of duty and dependency and loving so...
ALEXANDRA FULLER The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and esse...
ALEXANDRA FULLER I listen mostly to classical music.
ALEXANDRA FULLER I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always...
ALEXANDRA FULLER I love my mother so much, because I see the whole of her.
ALEXANDRA FULLER There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, an...
ALEXANDRA FULLER For a memoir to really succeed, the author has to do such hard work before they come to the page. Th...
ALEXANDRA FULLER I feel very strongly we are spiritual beings in a physical body, and we should make our surroundings...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD I have never been a professional model; I have had some modeling sessions.
ALEXANDRA KOSTENIUK I'm a combination between extreme insecurity and extreme confidence.
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emot...
ALEXANDRA KERRY Caring is open-hearted, keeping us available to transmit love to a stranger through simple eye conta...
ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS Dreaming led to disappointment, and disappointment to a kind of depressed funk that wasn’t easy to...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN I think I'm losing it—I don't know what's happening, what happened, but I look at you, I look at y...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Don’t be scared. Don’t let them see.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Never, never, never. I am never going to forget you.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN I'm a monster, you know. I'm one of the dangerous ones.
No you aren't, he promised. Your one of...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN For some reason, I find jogging incredibly boring, but yoga is the only thing I've been able to ...
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO No one starts a war warning that those involved will lose their innocence - that children will defin...
ALEXANDRA FULLLER And so taking the long way home through the market I slow my pace down. It doesn't come naturally. M...
ALEXANDRA POTTER Ghosts don't haunt people--their memories do.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN No matter how bad you want a person, if your hearts are in two different places, you’ll have to pa...
ALEXANDRA ELLE You do have a choice, you know,” Etta told her after a moment. “There is always a choice.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN It's our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Und manchmal passiert einem das Leben einfach, und man kann ihm nicht ausweichen Es kracht voll in e...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often we...
ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO I was genuinely lucky to have the professors I did, many of whom took a very humanist approach in te...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN A home should be an intimate autobiography of the things that you like. One of the things I'm so...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD Millennials give comics the kind of adulation past generations reserved for musicians. We respect La...
ALEXANDRA PETRI I never thought about writing a novel until I was 13, and that happened by chance. I was on school h...
ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO When Department of Health and Human Services administrators decided to base 30 percent of hospitals&...
ALEXANDRA ROBBINS Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that sam...
ALEXANDRA PAUL In the black sororities, they celebrate achievement academically, and they really do work toward com...
ALEXANDRA ROBBINS I think of making a movie in such a romantic way.
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES There are so many people I know who could be the greatest film-maker but who will never get the chan...
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES The cars we drive say a lot about us.
ALEXANDRA PAUL The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will ge...
ALEXANDRA PAUL Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over...
ALEXANDRA PAUL Power, as in the power structure, is why we are still using gas in cars.
ALEXANDRA PAUL The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.
ALEXANDRA PAUL I know I'm an actor, but I'm not at all a believer in people watching a lot of TV. I've ...
ALEXANDRA PAUL When the Exxon Valdez spilled in 1989, I was angry. I even wrote on the back of my car, Boycott Exxo...
ALEXANDRA PAUL I'm not particularly impressed with going 50 miles per gallon. That doesn't impress me when ...
ALEXANDRA PAUL I've always preferred food be on the blander side.
ALEXANDRA PAUL I'm trying to practice owning less stuff.
ALEXANDRA PAUL I really haven't been cognitive of gas prices. It wasn't until I filled up my husband's ...
ALEXANDRA PAUL Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere.
ALEXANDRA PAUL There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power.
ALEXANDRA PAUL I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove el...
ALEXANDRA PAUL I don't wear leather, wool, or silk.
ALEXANDRA PAUL I don't always buy organic food. It is more expensive.
ALEXANDRA PAUL Women have this obsession with shoes.
ALEXANDRA PAUL I don't think I miss anything by not watching television.
ALEXANDRA PAUL I'm very much a lead by example person.
ALEXANDRA PAUL If the whole world went vegan, there would be less war. How you eat determines your mood and your ou...
ALEXANDRA PAUL I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respect...
ALEXANDRA PAUL I'm very out of style... or I should say I have my own style.
ALEXANDRA PAUL The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and gra...
ALEXANDRA PAUL People are fascinated with eternal life and physical power - the idea of having no vulnerability. We...
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES Woodstock didn't define a generation because everyone showed up or those who did were a perfectl...
ALEXANDRA PETRI I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end o...
ALEXANDRA GUARNASCHELLI Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being 'diffe...
ALEXANDRA ROBBINS For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the ...
ALEXANDRA PAUL Charlize Theron is perfect. She holds herself with so much poise and grace. I don't know if she ...
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO I wasn't all that familiar with the 'Texas Chainsaw' franchise, and I knew who Leatherfa...
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO I watched 'Alien,' and I watched 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,' the Swedish vers...
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO I had done a lot of running in 'Texas Chainsaw' and sword-fighting in 'Percy Jackson,...
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO Being a person of faith is just another of a wide range of fun activities available to those who com...
ALEXANDRA PETRI George Washington didn't have to make us laugh; he just had to establish precedents and avoid ch...
ALEXANDRA PETRI Observe the rhythm of passers-by on the street, at work, everywhere. Summon loving acceptance and le...
ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS My reasons for becoming a chef are somewhat of a cliche. I always loved to eat but it was watching m...
ALEXANDRA GUARNASCHELLI Stand up for the underdog, the 'loser.' Sometimes having the strength to show loving support for una...
ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS I think it's important to convey to the women some of the variety of choices available to them as th...
ALEXANDRA TURALLO These kinds of people have absolutely so much to show.
ALEXANDRA TURALLO You can do it all in one place. You don't have to spend on the gas. And you can buy. If you go to a ...
ALEXANDRA TURALLO It's a nice girls' day out. It's a nice mix of vendors, a nice place to ask questions if it's a serv...
ALEXANDRA TURALLO What we do today, right now, Will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.
ALEXANDRA STODDARD THERE are a lot of nice people out there who think good thoughts -- why not share them?
ALEXANDRA STODDARD The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul.
ALEXANDRA STODDARD What we do today, right now, Will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.
ALEXANDRA STODDARD When we sip tea, we are on our way to serenity.
ALEXANDRA STODDARD All forms of self expression are linked.
ALEXANDRA STODDARD It was very hard, but we could not convict her of manslaughter in the other five cases based on the ...
ALEXANDRA SANDERS All the evidence they put before us, it just added up. On the other five, it wasn't 100 percent. We ...
ALEXANDRA SANDERS We took each one and just tore them apart. We were like six college students researching a paper.
ALEXANDRA SANDERS My heart goes out to the other five families. But we just didn't have enough evidence in those cases...
ALEXANDRA SANDERS If someone doesn't spell 'you' out in an e-mail, ... I assume the writer is in middle school. E-mail...
ALEXANDRA ROBBINS Just as people used to fret about the rules on when to call someone back, ... now they agonize for h...
ALEXANDRA ROBBINS Just as people used to fret about the rules on when to call someone back, ... now they agonize for h...
ALEXANDRA ROBBINS If someone doesn't spell 'you' out in an e-mail,
ALEXANDRA ROBBINS ...make sure you are still living in the present, rather than for an uncertain future.
ALEXANDRA ROBBINS At middle age, a guy might feel his life is stagnant, with too much predictability, stability and ce...
ALEXANDRA ROBBINS I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of tr...
ALEXANDRA RIPLEY Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.
ALEXANDRA RIPLEY Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.
ALEXANDRA RIPLEY We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Witho...
ALEXANDRA RIPLEY Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.
ALEXANDRA RIPLEY It makes me remember how important it is to take stock of these things. We are all just one big cog ...
ALEXANDRA PICAVET We have no idea. That's the investigation.
ALEXANDRA PICAVET [As for whether Teixeira was pushed, fell or jumped,] we have no idea, ... That's the investigation.
ALEXANDRA PICAVET All seven people have been reunited with their friends and families in good condition.
ALEXANDRA PICAVET They have over 30 years of hiking experience, but tonight the temperature is forecast to be 10 degre...
ALEXANDRA PICAVET People get blinded by the marijuana issue. ... We don't want people planting asparagus on the land, ...
ALEXANDRA PICAVET They'll pour fertilizer right into a stream, then irrigate out of it,
ALEXANDRA PICAVET It may be somebody entirely different.
ALEXANDRA PICAVET In the ice and snow, biological processes move really slowly, and it's not unlike putting something ...
ALEXANDRA PICAVET We're not going to go fast. We want to preserve him as much as possible. He's pretty intact.
ALEXANDRA PICAVET I know I'm an actor, but I'm not at all a believer in people watching a lot of TV. I've never had te...
ALEXANDRA PAUL I don't wear leather, wool, or silk.
ALEXANDRA PAUL I don't think I miss anything by not watching television.
ALEXANDRA PAUL I don't always buy organic food. It is more expensive.
ALEXANDRA PAUL For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the anim...
ALEXANDRA PAUL Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere.
ALEXANDRA PAUL I'm pretty much a cheap date, you know... no alcohol, no meat at dinner, and then, you know, when I ...
ALEXANDRA PAUL I'm very out of style... or I should say I have my own style.
ALEXANDRA PAUL I can't describe what happened. Everything is very vivid within my mind. I knew I could get good res...
ALEXANDRA ORLANDO It's harder for us to crack into that top 15 at the international stage. So this [Commonwealth Games...
ALEXANDRA ORLANDO It was a goal of mine, and I was expecting to do it if I performed well. I'm always nervous until al...
ALEXANDRA ORLANDO I'm very happy with my ball and rope.
ALEXANDRA ORLANDO We're all so close. It was just amazing for us. We were almost crying.
ALEXANDRA ORLANDO It (winning gold) is so important because it's been so long since Canada's been on top and it's just...
ALEXANDRA ORLANDO To have six is a bit unreal. I hope that this boosts the popularity of rhythmic gymnastics in Canada...
ALEXANDRA ORLANDO She's a huge support for me. Whenever I have a chance, I love just talking to her.
ALEXANDRA ORLANDO Erika is a huge role model for me and an inspiration. I'm growing into myself and a much stronger gy...
ALEXANDRA ORLANDO A principle of justice is that the defense needs to be able to conduct interviews in a privileged se...
ALEXANDRA MILENOV It is too early to reach any sort of conclusion.
ALEXANDRA MILENOV The proceedings will be terminated.
ALEXANDRA MILENOV He gave no indication he was contemplating such a move. There was nothing unusual in his demeanor.
ALEXANDRA MILENOV We have no information. He is not in the tribunal.
ALEXANDRA MILENOV We had pretty high hopes and there was a lot of pressure on us to take medals. It's difficult when y...
ALEXANDRA MEISSNITZER She has magic knees. I think it's a miracle she's already racing, and she did a good job.
ALEXANDRA MEISSNITZER She was really one of the girls I would have said would win a medal.
ALEXANDRA MEISSNITZER I had a good run, especially on the upper part of the course, but Michaela was just too strong.
ALEXANDRA MEISSNITZER It was really on the limit today. One of my teammates got hurt, but I don't think it was too dangero...
ALEXANDRA MEISSNITZER We all know everyone was not competing in the same conditions.
ALEXANDRA MEISSNITZER Today I had a lot of confidence. I took it pretty relaxed. I think it's priceless to start a season ...
ALEXANDRA MEISSNITZER Thinking about how much they sacrifice amazes me.
ALEXANDRA MCGREGOR With my whole family, it's always been about community service and helping others before helping you...
ALEXANDRA MCGREGOR I can't believe that this much has happened. I thought when I got the Oakland County resolution that...
ALEXANDRA MCGREGOR You do not need to support the war going on in Iraq, but please realize that our troops do much more...
ALEXANDRA MCGREGOR We have a Veterans Day and Memorial Day, but we don't have a day for the troops that are fighting ri...
ALEXANDRA MCGREGOR We couldn't believe the irony, that we were watching our own demise on TV it was all too post-post-m...
ALEXANDRA JACOBS I am so glad we got that guy - I just want to give him a big, wet smooch. I'm so grateful. He's the ...
ALEXANDRA JACOBS That was when the alarm began to be ratcheted up,
ALEXANDRA JACOBS We couldn't believe the irony, that we were watching our own demise on TV - it was all too post-post...
ALEXANDRA JACOBS We couldn't believe the irony, that we were watching our own demise on TV--it was post-postmodern,
ALEXANDRA JACOBS We couldn't believe the irony, that we were watching our own demise on TV. That seemed a little bit,...
ALEXANDRA JACOBS We couldn't believe the irony, that we were watching our own demise on TV â€â�...
ALEXANDRA JACOBS Boswell Wide Awake.
ALEXANDRA DAY The children keep growing up on me. I have to keep getting new babies.
ALEXANDRA DAY I was pretty sure when we made the first 'Carl' book that we had a good idea, but I couldn't have im...
ALEXANDRA DAY especially if they involve activities which would probably be forbidden by the grown-ups in charge.
ALEXANDRA DAY I don't think I've ever played in a golf tournament with so many people rooting against me. It's har...
ALEXANDRA BODEMANN Winning, to be included with all those legends, would be a great honor.
ALEXANDRA BODEMANN I've been in a slump, and to come back and win something like this is awesome.
ALEXANDRA BODEMANN I would like to thank my new friend. She has taught me never to give up.
ALEXANDRA BODEMANN Sometimes it’s only in the ecstasy of unrepressed movement that we may enter the stillness of our ...
ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS To sober up seems to many like making life “so serious,” as if seriousness precluded joy, warmth...
ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS I sort of forgot about 'Z Channel' after it went off the air in 1989, but once Jason Resnick...
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES Imagination makes us aware of limitless possibilities. How many of us haven't pondered the conce...
ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO As young Australians, the value of teamwork has been instilled in us throughout our schooling.
ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, m...
ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO Every mistake that you make, or every thing that you might regret, you don't need to necessarily...
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO Popular kids don't necessarily know who they are because they're so busy trying to conform. ...
ALEXANDRA ROBBINS Gen Y is depicted as self-centred and apathetic when it comes to politics, but it doesn't help t...
ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO When I have no appointments, I spend the day in pajamas and go to the dog park in pajamas. I'm v...
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO Here is just the beginning of a list of skills that exam results cannot possibly hope to reflect: in...
ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO Familial betrayal is, to me, the most heartbreaking kind - because if you can't trust your famil...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN I loved doing Baywatch. It was so much fun!
ALEXANDRA PAUL I think we love bacon because it has all the qualities of an amazing sensory experience. When we coo...
ALEXANDRA GUARNASCHELLI When you leave a beautiful place, you carry it with you wherever you go.
ALEXANDRA STODDARD You betcha. If I get to punch a manic, lanky jerk in the face, my night will be complete.” I gave ...
ALEXANDRA MARTIN But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN I thought you were gone forever, I thought you’d walked away from everything, because I failed, be...
ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO When we are able to look beyond appearances and to behold that which we truly are, we recognize that...
ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS I have a girl crush on Rachel Bilson. She's so cute, I just want to put her in my pocket. I love...
ALEXANDRA CHANDO I majored in extracurriculars, honestly. I joined the Harvard Stand Up Comedy Society, which is a ra...
ALEXANDRA PETRI