Alan Hollinghurst Quotes
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Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
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Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
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I've got a lot of other things I want to do.
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I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.
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I don't watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that I'm choosing to watch.
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The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker.
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I've done a lot of things that I regret.
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Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.
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There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.
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What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.
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I've always been able to put things in perspective.
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I don't get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.
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I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow.
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I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.
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I have no skills. I'm bad at most things.
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When we have financial struggles, kids are so much more aware of things than we want them to be.
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For all of us it’s the things that won’t work that keep our interest.
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The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'.
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“If you dwell in the darkness, you can see in the dark and look into the light. But in choosing the darkness, you know you are destined to walk alone.”
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It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn't want to attend a real meeting; my role didn't really require that, and I feel those meetings are sort of sacred, and they're anonymous for a reason. I tried to deal with some of my love of snacks - and I relapsed a lot.
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That isn’t who you are. You’re afraid. And you cannot have a life of great meaning if you make decisions out of fear.
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I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.
