Alexandra Cassavetes quote: "I think at its most mature, love is a very bourgeois state. There is something about luxuriating in the nest of love that people fall into naturally."

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

People are fascinated with eternal life and physical power - the idea of having no vulnerability. We...
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES

I sort of forgot about 'Z Channel' after it went off the air in 1989, but once Jason Resnick...
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES

I went to this Episcopalian school, and one day I came home and asked my mom, 'What religion are...
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES

The vampire movies I embraced as a kid used vampirism as a metaphor that expressed deep sadness and ...
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES

I think vampires are different from human beings, but they're sentenced to eternity on this plan...
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES

I think the reason vampire movies have been so popular over time is that they share so many parallel...
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES

I've noticed that when people make vampire movies, they're always determining which of the r...
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES

I feel too strongly about rearranging reality in a movie. It gives me peace.
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES

I'm not cynical, but I don't really want to have a boyfriend or husband again.
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES

It's a bloody shame that all the video stores have gone, I'll tell you. Everything's so ...
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES

I tell myself, 'If I can wake up each day and be excited about what I'm doing, then I must b...
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES

I don't know about relationships. Maybe I'm supposed to travel and make films and meet peopl...
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES

My taste in films doesn't lead financers to think they are going to make a zillion dollars.
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES

I think vampires would want to find a way to stay attached to the living, the way human beings do, a...
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES

I wanted to make an adult vampire film, not something for children.
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES

I didn't plan to be a director until I was 35. For years I wanted to do anything but!
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES

Love is a component of many different things - the baggage you bring, the moment, what you need in y...
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES

I just want to make something that is true to itself and that interests me; otherwise, how can I hav...
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES

As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.
ZOE CASSAVETES

I'm not complaining about my life; every moment of it has been fantastic, and I'm so lucky.
ZOE CASSAVETES

Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
ZOE CASSAVETES

I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.
ZOE CASSAVETES

People are going to say what they want to say.
ZOE CASSAVETES

I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.
ZOE CASSAVETES

I work hard and support myself.
ZOE CASSAVETES

My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through...
JOHN CASSAVETES

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child a...
JOHN CASSAVETES

You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through lo...
JOHN CASSAVETES

I won't call my work entertainment. It's exploring. It's asking questions of people, con...
JOHN CASSAVETES

Everyone who makes a film is at the major distributors' mercy.
JOHN CASSAVETES

Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.
JOHN CASSAVETES

The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an arti...
JOHN CASSAVETES

I'm a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in th...
JOHN CASSAVETES

There is no reason why a serious film, one about life, can't be enjoyable, maybe even fun. Emoti...
JOHN CASSAVETES

The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imag...
JOHN CASSAVETES

One question. How did you know I was here?
JOHN CASSAVETES

One question,
JOHN CASSAVETES

I'm not good at comparing and contrasting, ... I take what's in front of me for what it is, although...
JOHN CASSAVETES

Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.
JOHN CASSAVETES

I think I probably have the philosophy of a poor man. You know, like maybe I'd steal the pennies...
JOHN CASSAVETES

My parents allowed their two sons to be individuals. My family was a wild and wonderful place, with ...
JOHN CASSAVETES

When your child is sick, you have tunnel vision.
NICK CASSAVETES

My Mom and Dad did it pretty good, so I know it can work. The foremost thing I would say about worki...
NICK CASSAVETES

I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming qui...
JOHN CASSAVETES

I’m very worried about the depiction of women on the screen. It’s gotten worse than ever and it�...
JOHN CASSAVETES

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

In Africa, we filled up all available time busily doing not much, and then we wasted the rest.
ALEXANDRA FULLER

No one starts a war warning that those involved will lose their innocence - that children will defin...
ALEXANDRA FULLLER

In southern and central Africa, tragedy roared at us, and we roared back. We shared dramas publicly,...
ALEXANDRA FULLER

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

Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh...
ALEXANDRA FULLER

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 don't know if it's just my age or the climate or the high altitude or some of those old-co...
ALEXANDRA FULLER

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

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

In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no...
ALEXANDRA FULLER

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

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

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 ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢�...
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

I think at its most mature, love is a very bourgeois state. There is something about luxuriating in the nest of love that people fall into naturally.

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Alexandra Cassavetes

I think at its most mature, love is a very bourgeois state. There is something about luxuriating in the nest of love that people fall into naturally.

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