Alasdair Gray Quotes
She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.
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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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Gustafsson is a stud, man. He's a good fighter.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.
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There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.
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I want to write songs and play them for people - live.
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I think a girl looks good when she wakes up with nothing on her face.
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Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.
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There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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Money isn't everything. Do you get married because of money? Do you have kids because of money?
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After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
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My wife and I have four children, and none of them are in lab science, so clearly I returned home at night and presented a fairly unattractive example of a scientific life.
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Nine out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine!
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
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She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it.
