Alan Hollinghurst Quotes
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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It's those damn critics again.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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Reducing debt through budgetary consolidation is essential to restoring Europe's financial health.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life.
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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
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I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
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I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
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He who accounts all things easy will have many difficulties.
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Be stubborn and persist, and trust yourself on what you love. You have to trust what you love.
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Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
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He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.
