Alan Green Quotes
I grew up in the church, with traditional hymns, but at the same time I was beginning to listen to pop music, the mid-60s, The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did. Then the hippy stuff like Pink Floyd started to raise questions about how I lived my life and the world in which I lived.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
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I can understand the natural anxiety of readers when waiting for another installment of a favourite series, but I think it is much more important to get a book right than it is to have it appear on time.
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Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.
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Honestly, I don't know what 'having it all' means. I do my best - that's what I want my daughters to see.
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I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting.
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I'm no fan of what I've seen health insurance companies do.
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You have to maintain your principles but have a broader appeal.
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With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'
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Having done a lot of magazines, I'm very curious how big magazines handle big stories, and I was very curious to see how 'Time' and 'Newsweek' would handle 9/11. And I was basically pretty disappointed to see that they had chosen to show the photo we'd already seen a million times, which was basically the moment of impact.
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We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.
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Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.
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Christ was liberated on the cross through spiritual centers located where the nails are said to have been driven, and elsewhere.
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I never followed fashion. It's women who have dictated my conduct.
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When I was a kid, there were hardly any gay story lines or characters on television that I recall. Then when I was in college, 'Will & Grace' started up.
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I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I try not to be cruel to foreigners, especially when they're that strung out.
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You ought to try eating raw oysters in a restaurant with every eye focused upon you - it makes you feel as if the creatures were whales, your fork a derrick and your mouth Mammouth Cave.
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My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.
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I grew up in the church, with traditional hymns, but at the same time I was beginning to listen to pop music, the mid-60s, The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did. Then the hippy stuff like Pink Floyd started to raise questions about how I lived my life and the world in which I lived.
