Alex Scarrow Quotes
After all, what more does a true genius want? The mind itself is the palace where all the real treasures, the works of art, the indulgences exist.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I have a great office.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
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My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
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I don't know anyone who likes the American League games better. Maybe some fans do. But if you're not an actual DH, you probably prefer the National League.
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Stay focused on the mission.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.
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Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.
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I hate to be general, but I rely on Andrew Keenan-Bolger for all things music. Every season, he releases a mixtape on his blog of the most incredible and current music. I download it instantly, and it gets me through the season and keeps me educated musically.
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It's really fun to play someone with no filter but who is also really good at what she does.
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Once a fight has started, if you get involved in thinking about what to do, you will be cut down by your opponent with the very next blow.
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I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children's books can be mind-stretchers and imagination-ticklers and builders of good taste in a way that adult books cannot, because young people usually come to books with more open minds. It's exciting to be able to contribute to that in a small way.
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Production goes up and up because high pressure advertising and salesmanship constantly create new needs that must be satisfied: this is Admass- a consumer's race with donkeys chasing an electric carrot.
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After all, what more does a true genius want? The mind itself is the palace where all the real treasures, the works of art, the indulgences exist.
