Alain de Lille Quotes
An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.
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I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.
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The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
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I wonder, 'Why did I do that line that way?' And I also constantly think I'm fat and hate my teeth. But I've gotten better over the years. I've started to accept.
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What worries me is the professionalism of everything.
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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'
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There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids.
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We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but will bring an improvement in their lives.
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I can't really live outside Jamaica. I can be away, but only for a while.
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Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
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My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.
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How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is safe in our vaccines and dental amalgams?
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I've probably got lots of heroes. One is a chap called Charles Campbell - he is a wonderful chap. We cooked together in a nightclub in Notting Hill. He told me brilliant stories of food and life and generally put me on the right track.
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My NFL pension can barely pay my son's tuition. You know, it's very little money.
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In many ways, I feel like having the opportunity to play Gogol in 'The Namesake' really was my dream role in many ways.
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Klutziness is endearing. I like imperfection.
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I'm a big fan of the rule of law.
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I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything.
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Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain.
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The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style.
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I did think that it'd be truly cool to be a foreign correspondent, and it was. There is a degree of freedom - and the right to roam the earth on somebody else's nickel.
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Since you've been gone, I can breath for the first time.
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An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.
