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 was not really as good as I should have been.
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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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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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I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.
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The overwhelming number of police officers in Chicago are doing good work under difficult conditions. They put their lives on the line every day in situations none of us can fully comprehend or appreciate.
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The ways we miss our lives are life.
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...talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.
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Nequeunt oculis rerum primordia cerni.
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Schools shouldn't have to choose between serving a student with special needs or cutting an art class, laying off teachers or using outdated textbooks. But these are the positions that far too many schools have been placed in, and only a meaningful acknowledgment of the problem can begin the process of getting them out.
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I don't know if you've ever been skiing, but if you go to the slope you'll see all these kids fearlessly zooming by. It's only when we get older that fear creeps in. But for me, it just never has. And when it comes to racing, it's always about who is willing to go further, who is willing to take that extra step. I'm willing to take any amount of pain to win. I'm hungry like you.
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Life is a series of commas, not periods.
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Let not one single life have passed in vain. What really matters is who you love and how you love.
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Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.
