Alasdair MacLean Quotes
There's nobody on a normal income who can afford to live anywhere centrally, so everything becomes displaced and decentralized. The city of London becomes incongruent. It doesn't have any coherence anymore.
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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I've always been open about my life not because my story is unique, but because it isn't.
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I just don't know the art of making friends with girls. And that's the reason why I've never had a single girl as a friend. Also, I'm so engrossed in cricket that I've never found an opportunity to interact with girls very closely. In a way, it's better, as my mind doesn't get diverted!
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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To come in and win three races already this year and maybe set a record by winning four is pretty unique. But guys like Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace and these guys are not wanting that to happen.
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There is an urgent need for the Central government to take the lead in ensuring health and nutrition service delivery.
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David Fincher's work has all been incredibly well-received on Netflix, and Kevin Spacey's films have all worked on Netflix.
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The simple things in life make me very happy.
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
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It's a strange thing we do as actors. I'm walking out the door, and I'll say, 'O.K., honey, I'm off to take my clothes off.'
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He was as great as a man can be without morality.
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My belief is that we should never become overconfident.
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.
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There's nobody on a normal income who can afford to live anywhere centrally, so everything becomes displaced and decentralized. The city of London becomes incongruent. It doesn't have any coherence anymore.
