Alan Gottlieb Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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I have what is probably the largest big bike collection in the city: a Fat Boy, a sportser Harley Davidson and two Yamahas. All these are 1200cc-plus bikes. Riding these bikes is something I still do and some trekking as well.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
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I'm vegetarian and stick to a strict health regime of brown rice, tofu, salads and soya milk. When I'm at home in Somerset, I buy almost everything in the local farmshops including Barleymow's in Chard. I always get organic - I like happy hens.
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Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.
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I'm reading scripts just like everybody else. Tin cup in hand, knocking on doors, trying to get a job. It's tough. They don't make as many films these days, and there's a lot of guys that are fighting for jobs.
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I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
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All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
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The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
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I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.
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You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.
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There was nothing he could do unless he accepted what was real.
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There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent.But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.
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The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.
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Imagination comes of not having things.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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Appeal can't happen until I've been sentenced.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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The devil fools with the best laid plans.
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The devil could be in the details, but I understand the concern. I share it.
