Alasdair Gray Quotes
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I would like to direct.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.
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I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.
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I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
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I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.
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My size is a huge part of me. You just have to appreciate those kinds of things. So I wasn't born with long legs - who cares. You just have to embrace it. Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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The scene was attempted a second time, up on top of the fort, and cameras didn't even roll. Michael, though he wasn't admitting it, wasn't sure how to shoot the scene.
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As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.
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I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.
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I've been careful to keep my life separate because it's important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I'm worth more than that.
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As a producer, I try to bring as many nice people as I can to insure that there's no screaming, there's no shouting, there's no bullying. The more of those kind of people that you can bring together, the better the experience everyone has on set.
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Alles Gescheite ist schon gedacht worden. Man muss nur versuchen, es noch einmal zu denken.
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Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.
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I've never liked to conceptualize too much about fashion, like it was art or science, which it is not. But it's nice when there's a clear idea behind a collection.
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Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.
