Alex Lemon Quotes
The more prose I wrote, the more the pendulum swung back toward the middle, merging some poetic sensibilities with the more fundamental elements of creative prose.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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I don't mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I'm in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want.
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'The Moon Rabbit' is laying against the bunker, dreaming and thinking about life and dreaming the impossible possible and creating its own true stories.
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A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who played on a losing team that year.
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I treasure my meetings with individuals affected by autism - parents, children, teachers and friends. Their strength is inspiring. They deserve all possible opportunities for education, employment and integration.
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I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.
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I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.
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Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.
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What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
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I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.
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I am not as simple as I look.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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It's great that with the Internet, there has come this sense of creative independence.
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You have to be willing to get back on that horse and try it again if the mood strikes. That was one of the great pieces of wisdom that I got early on in my career in terms of being blocked. If you get to a creative roadblock, you can sit there and rack your brain.
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I think that whenever you have got an incoming president of the other side it takes a while for people to reconcile themselves with that new reality.
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For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.
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The more prose I wrote, the more the pendulum swung back toward the middle, merging some poetic sensibilities with the more fundamental elements of creative prose.
