Alexander MacLaren Quotes
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
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I want to hang out with my friends. I want to hang out with my family - well, I sometimes want to hang out with my family!
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When I was younger, I had a much better connection between words and music. Somewhere along the way, I had kind of an aspiration to disconnect them, to just kind of go into a totally musical world.
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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
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A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that they have little quality emotion and energy left for their children, much less their husbands.
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I saw men go up and down, In the country and the town, With this tablet on their neck,- 'Judgement and a judge we seek.' Not to monarchs they repair, Nor to learned jurist's chair; But they hurry to their peers, To their kinsfolk and their dears; Louder than with speech they pray,- 'What am I? companion, say.'
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Between the ideaAnd the realityBetween the motionAnd the actFalls the Shadow
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No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
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Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.
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You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.
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Je me suis baigné dans le PoèmeDe la Mer...Dévorant les azurs verts.
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Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.
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Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.
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The beauty of voice-over work is that maybe you come in and record once every two weeks for a couple of hours and do a couple episodes a session. It's awesome! You spend an afternoon playing in the booth, and there you have it. It doesn't interfere with much.
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I'm a sucker for entertainment and escapism as much as the next person. I like silly and lowbrow stuff, but I get nervous when I indulge in that too often. I want to know what's going on in the world. I have a morbid fear of being surprised by bad news. I want to anticipate everything.
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I find that a lot of times when family members get bronchitis or the flu or something like that, I'll kind of skate through and be really lucky and not get that sick.
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Is a Christian- one who communicates daily with the Creator- to divorce himself from the things God created and intended man to have, and which demonstrate the fact that man has been made in the image of God? In other words, are we who have been made in the image of our creator to be less creative than those who do not know the Creator? The Christian should have more vividly expressed creativity in his daily life.
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You are creating a Frankenstein. - Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, concerned about the growing strength of the Islamist movement, told President George H. W. Bush.
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If God sends us on stony paths, He will provide us with strong shoes.
