William R. Alger Quotes
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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I want to entertain people, but with some substance.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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The reality is that not only were we massively hit in 2008 when the bubble burst, and then we realized how deep the social gap, the economic gap in the world is between the super rich and the poor; also, we realized how impacted the environment has been. So there's been a physical consequence of that.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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Industry and institutes need to build smarter linkages.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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I hate dentists. That's why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn't go back, so it just dropped out when I was in the middle of Fifth Avenue.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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India has large proven reserves of gas that remain unexploited.
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I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
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Stilicidi casus lapidem cavat.
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I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.
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What frustrated me was the thought that with three thousand years of history someone in China, some monk in a monastery halfway up a mountain, must have developed a magic kata, a physical expression of formae. Or at least have got close enough to explain all those legendary swordsmen and their inexplicable desire to roost on the tops of bamboo trees.
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I love Simone Rocha. I just think she's really clever.
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Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.
