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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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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There is a magic in some books / That sucks a man into connections / With the spirits hard to touch / That join him to his kind.
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The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves.
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I grew up in Jerusalem and went to school here. I studied at the Hebrew University - mostly Islam and Arabic: Arab literature, Arab poetry and culture, because I felt like we are living in this region, in the Middle East, and we are not alone: There are nations here whose culture is Arab.
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I was born in a lovely white house with a garden.
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No child is bad from the beginning, they only imitate their atmosphere.
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I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.
