Anthony Clifford Grayling (A.C. Grayling) Quotes
Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you?
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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But I think we need the international market.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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I think we've shot scenes from every angle directors can think of to make it look like different villages. I've directed a couple shows on that set and believe me, it's impossible not to duplicate some camera angles.
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We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.
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The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
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Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.
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It's ridiculous. My life's been a series of happy accidents.
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I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.
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Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you?
