Alan Sepinwall Quotes
Over time, your quickness with a cocky rejoinder must have gotten you many punches in the face.
Quotes to Explore
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.
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Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
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I'm one of those actresses that really enjoys staying home with my children. To be told you've got to get to work, it is just unbelievable what it does to you.
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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
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My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well.
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Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
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You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'
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When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.
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Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
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If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
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I don't let anything kill my spirit.
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For the entirety of my career, I have taken the fights that no one wanted because I fear no man.
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There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.
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A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.
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So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
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I didn't get why I was wearing a mask. But I understand it now - why my dad would want our face to be covered.
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Being a former first lady doesn't prepare you to be president.
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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Over time, your quickness with a cocky rejoinder must have gotten you many punches in the face.
