Anthony Clifford Grayling (A.C. Grayling) Quotes
A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
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Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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'It Girl' is supposed to be something that only lasts a certain amount of time. They keep calling me an 'It Girl,' and at this point it makes me laugh, because I've done that so many times: 'You're it;' 'You're not it.' What is 'it?'
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I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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Having principled men and women in office is how you protect yourself from tyranny, and that was something I learned from when I was 2, 3, 5 years old.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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Until 'Moonlight,' I had never seen one black man cook for another on screen. But I wanted the characters to be free of 'groundbreaking' or 'never before.' We were ascribed those things. They weren't the point.
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I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.
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A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
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I really like to absorb the project and watch it and work on the music a lot and just get the feel for it until eventually a moment comes where I know I've got it. A lot of it is trial and error. Some days a piece of music doesn't work then other day another piece of music finally says something and works with the picture and suddenly casts a light on all the other stuff you've done - probably because my mind is getting to understand it and the piece is educating me. I always feel like the score is in there already somewhere and I just have to channel it and accent it.
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They are beautiful monsters... And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty.
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Being brave doesn't mean never being afraid, you know. It means going for it anyway because you know it's the right thing to do.
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A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
