Anthony Clifford Grayling (A.C. Grayling) Quotes
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.
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I just sing. You have to use it.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.
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The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
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I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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'No one sits Baby in a corner,' one of the best lines in movie history.
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All of the Antilles, every island, is an effort of memory: every mind, every racial biography culminating in amnesia and fog. Pieces of sunlight through the fog and sudden rainbows, arcs-en-ciel. That is the effort, the labour of the Antillean imagination, rebuilding its gods from bamboo frames, phrase by phrase.
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Great nations need organizing principles, and ‘Don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle.
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I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
