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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One of the things women are very good at, that's networking. Women are not afraid to say, "I need." They're not afraid. Men won't even ask for directions. Women will tell each other when they need something. Women will tell each other when their husband is having an affair. Men don't do that.
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I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.
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Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.
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The best gifts in life will never be found under a Christmas tree, those gifts are friends, family, children and the one you love.
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With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.
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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.
