Alain Robbe-Grillet Quotes
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I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.
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No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.
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They can say I have an opinion about something.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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As is always the way with pancakes, the first hotcake to come out of the pan will probably be a bit misshapen. Just scoff it, and carry on with the rest.
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In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
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I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
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I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.
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The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.
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For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.
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I'm still enjoying discovering more designers and getting to play dress-up in a bigger way than I ever have before.
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People are going to say what they want to say.
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I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.
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A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.
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The only way you're going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.
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Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.
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China in particular is a very important market.
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The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.
