Alan Charles Korsun Quotes
Until socialism is confronted with its lived, communist reality, the gravest atrocities of all recorded human life, we live in its age.
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As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
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I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.
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I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
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I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.
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I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.
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I'm lucky to be married to someone who entirely gets what I do. She is totally sympathetic to the actor's life. Her own mother was an actress, so she sort of grew up with it.
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.
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Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.
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The United States is no longer first in the world in upward mobility. We can reverse that trend by giving our young children an equal start in life as they begin their journey to fulfill the American Dream.
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Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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There is kind of a typical experience as a premier. You go in, you win a couple, you get out. Go serve on boards, take your head out of the political ringer and take on a much more private life.
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If you loved, sooner or later you always lost; that was the penalty you had to pay for loving. Grief can be endured - somehow. But how poor and bare would be a life which had nothing to grieve over!
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Who knew? If the illusion is quite perfect, who is to say it is not real?
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I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to renewal. This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of crises - of rupture, repudiation and resistance. When there is no crisis, there is stagnation, petrifaction and death. All thought, all art is aggressive.
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I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.
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The Devil made me do it the first time - the second time I done it on my own...
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Until socialism is confronted with its lived, communist reality, the gravest atrocities of all recorded human life, we live in its age.
