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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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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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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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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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
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There needs to be leadership in the heartland of America.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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It's probably easier for rappers as far as a respect level. 'Cause with singers, the powers that be tend to feel that we're stupid.
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If you hate me it is because I have morals.
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I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.
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Whom should we love, if not Him who loved us, and gave himself for us?
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He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.
