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.

Anthony Clifford Grayling

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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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• 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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• 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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• I'm pretty hard on myself in general.

  

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• Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

  

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• I saw clearly only when I saw with love. Or can one ever remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume. And that's the truth of roses, isn't it? - The perfume?

  

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• I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.

  

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• Every decade or so, Hollywood has an epiphany. It turns out faith-based audiences enjoy going to the movies, too.

  

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• Strangely, I have a huge aversion to movies that try to teach healthy people an abusive lesson about the darkness in the world.

  

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• As a musician, I know that it'll take time for me to get to the ranks of an established artiste. Nevertheless, I'm very happy that people are appreciating my music.

  

  Priyanka Chopra
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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.

  

  Anthony Clifford Grayling
  • People
  • Life
  • Different