Alan Hollinghurst Quotes
The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.
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Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.
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I keep trying to convince people that I'm OK to wrestle, and I think that's probably the hard part. A lot of times I'm trying to convince myself, too, that I can wrestle. It's really hard, because the concussion issue is very subjective, and that's the part that a lot of people don't understand.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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I have a really hard time finding good denim.
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I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.
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Living in the U.K., there is no way to know whether anyone in India likes my music, but I was surprised to see people singing along while I performed in Pune.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.
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There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved.
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I waste energy on anger rather than investing it in hope.
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Why don't you sit right down and stay awhile? We like the same things and I like your style Its not a secret; why do you keep it? I'm just sitting on the shelf
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Brainwashed from rock and rap.
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This is what writers mean when they say that the notion of cause involves the idea of necessity. If there be any meaning which confessedly belongs to the term necessity, it is unconditionalness. That which is necessary, that which must be, means that which will be, whatever supposition we may make in regard to all other things.
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One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.
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As the oldest I was a daddys girl and loved him with all my heart. My daddy had holes in his shoes so that he could pay for my photography classes, you know what I mean.
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I play the Terminator, but you guys are the true terminators.
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High politic is only common sense applied to great things.
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The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.
