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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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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In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of 'jihad'.
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I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.
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Nothing in life is promised except death.
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I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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There is more to a science fiction story than the science it contains. There is also the story.
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When I was younger, I was drawn to Ayn Rand books and other works of fiction celebrating individualism.
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Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.
