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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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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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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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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I think that, ultimately, there are so many characters in G.I. Joe that even all the iterations - the comics and the different cartoons and everything - have been a big ensemble. Lots of crossing storylines and stuff.
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Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.
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I used to MC a bit when I was young - 14 or 15 years old.
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When I see people that are my age and reaching 50, the ones that are really sparkly and full of joy are the ones that are committed to something bigger than themselves.
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There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.
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Thinking in time is not relativism but a form of relationalism... the truest description of something consists of specifying its relationships to other parts of the system it is part of.
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My dad was a voracious news consumer. I remember just sitting with my family all the time. I would sit on his lap and read the paper with him. He would read it to me.
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If you've never seen people taking the pledge of allegiance for the first time as U.S. Citizens, it will move you: a room full of people who can really appreciate what I was lucky enough to grow up with, simply by being born in Brooklyn.
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She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it.
