Alan Hollinghurst Quotes
What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material.
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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Success is the sweetest revenge.
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Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
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Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.
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In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.
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That's why I love doing television because it's something that fans and viewers can sit down each week and get to know your character and get to know the show and get to know what's going on and fall in love with you all over again, like they did in previous shows.
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Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.
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Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.
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If you asked me if I wanted more joyful experiences in my life, I wouldn't be at all sure I did, exactly because it proves such a difficult emotion to manage.
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The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.
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Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.
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I never felt like I was anything special. I just feel like a very lucky guy.
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When it comes to meritocracy and diversity, the symbolic is real. And that means that simple actions that reduce bias, such as blind resume or application screening, are a double win: they reduce implicit bias and they help communicate our commitment to meritocracy.
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All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.
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Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.
