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The qualities that make parties such a nightmare for people - and also so pleasurable - make them incredibly important inside of fiction. There's a chaos agent quality to them: You just don't know who's going to be there or why. You could run into an old enemy, an old friend, an old friend who's become an enemy.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Agent Also Become Chaos Could Enemy Fiction Friend Going Important Incredibly Inside Just Know Make Nightmare Old Old Friend Parties People Pleasurable Qualities Quality Run Them Why You

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Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.

~Alexander Cockburn

Topics: About Be Careful Become Burma Cannot Careful Lanka Malaysia Most Now Part People Remember Should Thailand Whether Sri Lanka

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I'm not terribly focused on whether I even could ever become the Leader of the Liberal Party or the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the future.

~Alexander Downer

Topics: Become Could Deputy Even Ever Focused Future Leader Liberal Liberal Party Party Terribly Whether

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Yes, I don't think I shall ever become Prime Minister. Hard as that is to swallow, I tell you one person who is very happy always to see me say that, and that's my wife.

~Alexander Downer

Topics: Always Become Ever Happy Hard Me Minister Person Prime Prime Minister Say See Shall Swallow Tell Think Very Who Wife Yes You

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Once you become famous, you can't become unfamous. You can become a failure.

~Alexander Hanson

Topics: Become Failure Famous Once You

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My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.

~Alexander Mccall Smith

Topics: Bad Become Been Elizabeth Famous Give Great Great Success Hopeless Like Most Musicians Orchestra People Performance Play Pretty Really Started Success Terrible Us Who Wife World Would

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Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.

~Alexander Payne

Topics: American Become Cesspool Change Cinema Feel Films Formula Future Hollywood Like Me Personally Preacher Really Responsible True Try Up Us I Feel I Feel Like

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The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies, like 'Jaws' or 'The Godfather.'

~Alexander Payne

Topics: Bad Become Cinema Exclusive Film Godfather Good Good Film Good Movies Jaws Like Literature Many Movies Novel Novels Succeeds Terms Why

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The system in Sweden is great because you get free healthcare and free education; someone who doesn't have a lot of money can become a doctor or lawyer. There's good paternity and maternity leave - the U.S. is probably the only civilised country in the world that doesn't give parents anything.

~Alexander Skarsgard

Topics: Anything Because Become Civilised Country Doctor Education Free Get Give Good Great Healthcare Lawyer Leave Lot Maternity Money Only Parents Someone Sweden System Who World You

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The last book I read was Noam Chomsky on anarchism; maybe I will become an anarchist.

~Alexander Skarsgard

Topics: Anarchism Anarchist Become Book Last Maybe Read Will

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