Alan Weisman Quotes
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.
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We were descended from royalty.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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I haven't actually studied acting at all.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
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I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.
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A big blockbuster like 'Kick' expands the audience for my films and makes it easier to promote them.
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I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
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Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.
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I don't look too far ahead.
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My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing.
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
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Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.
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Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.
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We are embedded in the great evolutionary story of planet Earth, the spare, elegant process of mutation and selection and bricolage. And this means that we are anything but alone.
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You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.
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But the Earth holds ghosts, even of entire nations.
