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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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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I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude.
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Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.
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Octavia Spencer rocks. But just as a human being, she's so down-to-earth. Talk about being pleasantly surprised. You walk onto set, and she's making these jokes, and she's playing around with the cast and the crew, and she invited all to her house for a dinner party. She's just a genuinely good person.
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The worst hotels are any with a bad bed. I stayed in a hotel where they left cards telling me my enjoyment was of paramount importance. I should have written, 'Nice rooms, crap beds.'
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I worked as a carpenter for a few years. I began writing. I wrote a book about my time in Africa - that came out in 1988 - called 'The Village of Waiting.'
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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.
