Alec-Tweedie Quotes

We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.

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• One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do with the body, the mind, medical technology, and the way we live our lives.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • Different
  • Live
  • Mind

• I recently read an article on how I was dropped from a film because I couldn't dance! It was so ridiculous that I decided to shut up about it. Let people say what they want to. It's such a waste of time.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Life
  • School
  • Desk

• When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • Future
  • Write
  • I Write

• Think both big and small. Loving to bake doesn't only mean becoming a baker. It could mean starting a blog, becoming a food photographer, or going into organic chemistry.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Small
  • Food
  • Starting

• Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Want
  • Place
  • Patriotism

• Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Time
  • Creative
  • Equality

• You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• I'm less concerned about whether being a good corporate citizen burnishes a company's reputation. That's just an added benefit. I believe it's a responsibility, and there is no negotiating on responsibilities.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Responsibility

• 'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even younger watched that show. A generation grew up on that show, Luke and Laura, I came in on the cusp of that so there's still a lot of 'Frisco.'

  

  Jack Wagner
  • People
  • Up
  • Age

• It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Time
  • Great
  • Inspire

• Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Good
  • Real
  • You

• What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

  

  Ovid
  • Pain
  • Grief
  • Calmness

• I have lots of clothes that I don't wear because I'm bad for impulse buying. They sit in my cupboard looking forlorn, but if I haven't worn something for a couple of months, I usually realise that it would be much better off in one of my friends' wardrobes.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Friends
  • Bad
  • Couple

• And not only that but... when the station is completed, there will be an international crew made of astronauts coming from different cultural experiences, speaking different languages, but working together for a common goal.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Different
  • Together
  • Working Together

• The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Principle
  • Carry
  • Employees

• Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Strength
  • Perseverance

• It never became an obsession for me to score at all costs. I've always said that I'm not a big scorer, I'm a worker.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Said
  • Obsession
  • Costs

• He wears the rose Of youth upon him.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • inspirational
  • Flower
  • Rose

• Years go, dreams go, and youth goes too, The world's heart breaks beneath its wars,All things are changed, save in the east,The faithful beauty of the stars.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Heart
  • Years
  • Dreams

• Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Wonderful
  • Youth

• We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.

  

  Alec-Tweedie
  • Youth
  • Individuality
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