Alan Light Quotes
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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
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My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.
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The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.
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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
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I am quite a private person.
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
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I am an honest person, transparent, that look citizens straight in their faces.
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My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.
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But I think that sometimes, when one's behaved like a rather second-rate person, the way I did at breakfast, then in a kind of self-destructive shock one goes and does something really second-rate. Almost as if to prove it.
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I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that organ in the state of a jelly-fish when the task is done.
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Science may explain the world, but we still have to explain science. The laws which enable the universe to come into being spontaneously seem themselves to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design. If physics is the product of design, the universe must have a purpose, and the evidence of modern physics suggests strongly to me that the purpose includes us
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As an actor, to be able to experiment and grow and be pushed, it's been phenomenal for me, and it's given me confidence to move forward.
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It’s a hymn of the heretic, a piyut liturgical poem of a modern, doubtful person.
