Alan Hollinghurst Quotes
I was rather a goody-goody as a child... It was only later on I discovered that you could be naughty and get away with it.
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The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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I'd always gone to the theater as a child every month to see whatever was on. I think that's where the passion for it came from.
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There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
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There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.
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When I'm out the street, I get people whispering behind me, 'Isn't that Jennifer Lawrence?' I should start doing autographs - although if you stood us side by side, you wouldn't make that mistake.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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I was rubbish at school.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
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I have always wanted to be liked and respected.
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I like old Disney films that have an edge to them.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
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I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are powerful but this isn't mysticism in the ordinary sense to be protected by mumblings about faith and all that. This is the real thing.
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If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
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People look at me as sort of a diplomat for Turkey, which by nature, I'm not; I don't want to be. It's again about that playfulness. Being Turkey's voice or representative is not playful, it's not childlike; it makes me self-conscious, kills the child in me.
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When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.
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I was rather a goody-goody as a child... It was only later on I discovered that you could be naughty and get away with it.
