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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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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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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I don't let things go unless I'm ready for them to go.
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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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My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck.
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The power of magic has no known limits. A person knows, in a fair way, his own physical capacities, the weight of the blows he can deal, the furthest range of his arrows, the strength of his voice, the speed and endurance of his running; but the reaches of his mind are indefinite and, to his feeling, infinite.
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I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.
