Anthony Clifford Grayling (A.C. Grayling) Quotes
And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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I want to do good stories, and I want to work with really interesting people. And if it's Noah Hawley forever, that's also amazing.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.
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In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.
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I don't understand people who spend their twenties hanging out in bars and going to football game. That stuff is so boring compared to really applying yourself to what you do.
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I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.
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Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
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And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.
